8040 - John Lennon Signed Cigarette Pack, with Apple Records 45 RPM Single Presented by Lennon

John Lennon Signed Cigarette Pack, with Apple Records 45 RPM Single Presented by Lennon Vintage red ballpoint signature, “John Lennon,” on a 3.5 x 2.25 crushed package of "Gauloises Disque Bleu" cigarettes. In very good condition, with overall creasing and a skip to the start of the signature. Includes an Apple Records 45 RPM single of Yoko Ono's 'Mindtrain / Listen, the Snow Is Falling,' given to the autograph seeker by John Lennon. Accompanied by a detailed provenance statement from the original recipient, in part: "I was working as a busboy at an Elby's Big Boy restaurant in Cambridge, Ohio, back in 1972. I noticed one table had 3 people sitting there and 2 of them I recognized as John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The third individual remains unknown to this day. Initially they denied who they were. We kept bugging them and followed them out to their car. I had already picked up this empty pack of cigarettes and a pen for him to sign with. He then pulled out a stack of 45s and started handing them out to us. I wish I would have had both of them sign that too but it's hard to think of that when you are so excited just meeting them. They said they were heading to New York to try and get custody of his son, Julian. They talked for 5 or 10 minutes but it soon got pretty crowded around them so they got into their ordinary looking station wagon and drove off."