A guitar bought by George Harrison for £58 (S$100) has sold for over £1 million (S$1.7 million) at auction. The late Beatles star's mother paid for the Resonet Futurama instrument in 1959 when he was a 16-year-old apprentice electrician,

Julien’s Auctions originally priced the guitar between $600,000 to $800,000, meaning it sold for nearly double the lower end of its estimate. The $1.27 million price tag makes it the most expensive Harrison-owned guitar ever sold at auction.

George Harrison's early Futurama guitar set a world record for most expensive Harrison guitar ever sold at auction.

A guitar bought by the late George Harrison for £58 and used in the early days of The Beatles has sold for over £1 million at auction.