{"id":666939,"date":"2026-06-30T23:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666939\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:27:18","slug":"sir-paul-mccartney-signed-book-found-in-charity-shop-sells-for-nearly-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666939\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Paul McCartney signed book found in charity shop sells for nearly \u00a31,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Randle said: &#8220;The book had actually been sitting on a shelf for a few months alongside lots of other 1970s memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d been planning to use some of the items in a fun window display, so it wasn&#8217;t something we&#8217;d paid particular attention to at first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that one afternoon she found herself &#8220;with a bit of spare time&#8221; and decided to work her way through the pile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was one of the very last things I looked at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I opened the book and saw Paul McCartney&#8217;s signature, I could hardly believe it&#8230; it was one of the best moments of my 10 years working in the shop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The book is signed on the inside front cover in black ballpoint pen by Sir Paul, reading: &#8220;All the best! to ye!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oxfam staff have so far been unable to trace the donor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randle said: &#8220;The book had actually been sitting on a shelf for a few months alongside lots of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}