Hitting the auction block on June 18th, at Bonhams of London, is a lock of hair from one Sir Paul McCartney. A 44 year old lock of hair at that. According to the Bonhams lot 260 detail:

This lock of hair was won by the vendor's mother, who was a 12-year-old schoolgirl from Annandale at the time. The competition was organised by Sydney's 'TV Week' magazine. An article in the issue included in the lot gives the background to the competition, in which readers were asked to '...give the best and most original 25-word reason for possessing it (the hair).

'The winning entry stated that she '...would like to win a lock of Paul McCartney's hair to prove to my father that the Beatles really do have their hair cut.' The article continues: 'She is now the only teenager in Australia with a lock of hair cut from Paul McCartney's mop-top during his fantastic stay in Australia...Catherine will keep her souvenir by securing it in a blue bow.'

The auction house estimates the lock of hair will fetch between £7,000 to £10,000.