An electric guitar played by the late guitarist George Harrison in the early days of the Beatles will go up for sale at an auction next month where it could be sold for more than $800,000. Bought from a music store in the band's birth city of Liverpool,

George Harrison's guitar has gone on public display at a museum in Liverpool ahead of it going under the hammer next month. The Futurama electric guitar was bought by The Beatles star for about £58 when he was a 16-year-old apprentice electrician in 1959.

The iconinc Futurama guitar George Harrison played in the early days of the Beatles could fetch over $800,000 at Julien's Auctions this November.

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The guitar will be on display at The Beatles Story in Liverpool for the next fortnight before being shown at other museums across Europe

The Beatle is believed to have played the Futurama guitar in more than 300 performances, including several key moments in the band’s early tenure

"All the other guitars fell off the wall!" George Harrison recalled when he and Paul McCartney demoed his historic Futurama at the music shop

A guitar bought by George Harrison for about £58 is expected to fetch more than 1 million US dollars (£753,000) at auction. The Futurama electric guitar was bought by The Beatles star when he was a 16-year-old apprentice electrician in 1959 and was paid for in 44 instalments after his mother signed a hire purchase agreement at Frank Hessy's music shop in Liverpool.