(12PressRelease.com) The 54-year-old Maryland resident owns hundreds of Beatles-related items, including Ring Starr's front-logo bass drumhead from The Ed Sullivan Show appearances in February 1964 and stage suits worn by the Fab Four during their world-conquering heyday from 1962 to 1970. His investments have multiplied as much as tenfold over the years — auction houses estimate the drumhead to be worth in the mid six figures today. In addition, Lease, who has more than 25 years experience in men's retail clothing and leather handbags manufacturing, was inspired to start a business that makes replicas of the iconic suits in all different sizes for tribute bands and fans alike.
A first-generation Beatles fan himself, Lease began collecting in the mid-1970s. One of his earliest finds was sheet music for "Whatever Gets You Through the Night," autographed by John Lennon. After buying one of Lennon's guitar picks, he was taken off guard when another collector offered to purchase it a few months later for quadruple what he had paid. "I knew I was on to something," he says with a smile.
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The reason for him to collect those precious items are quite related to his personal interest. The fashion that is really fashion enough will finally become classic. No matter it's music, shoes, bags or sun glasses. That‘s the same reason for him to do the handbags manufacturing.
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Some of the unique items Lease owns include a Mersey Beat music newspaper from January 1962 declaring the Beatles (with then-drummer Pete Best) as "Best Liverpool Band"; a lock of Lennon's hair and accompanying autograph ("Love from ´bald' John Lennon") from 1963; pieces of artwork by Stuart Sutcliffe, who was in the band from 1959 to 1961; a pair of Lennon's trademark circular glasses from 1967; four sets of four Beatles signatures in which each member forged the other three's names; and a June 1963 telegram from Lennon to Liverpool's Cavern Club announcer Bob Woolmer, apologizing for punching Woolmer in the face during an argument on McCartney's 21st birthday.
Collecting their things is just out of my interest rather than business. I am mainly focused on the leather handbags manufacturing, he says. And I am not goanna sell these precious items for money, though I know they real worth something. But I have enough of it for my handbags manufacture business has been going quite well.
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