Rare copy of The Beatles' White Album raises more than £2,000 for charity
A rare copy of The Beatles' 1968 White Album raised more than £2,000 at auction after being donated to a charity shop.
The first edition of the album was handed in to The British Heart Foundation's Sutton Coldfield branch. Shop manager Natalie Langsford said a "generous donor" brought it in "and it was just mixed in with other items". After charity experts suspected its value, it was listed on eBay and sold for £2,350 on Monday night.Image caption,The White Album, released in 1968 with a blank sleeve, was the Liverpool quartet's ninth studio album and is formally titled The Beatles.The edition donated to the British Heart Foundation is thought to be incredibly rare, featuring a misprint unique to the first version of the record of which there are only 10,000 copies.
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