Rolling Stones 'fag packet' sold for £380 at Cheffins auction in Cambridge
Written by CHRIS ELLIOTT



Bob Wickham , and cigarette packet that has the autographs of the Rolling Stones on it - original band - when they played in Cambridge in 1960s, it's going to be auctioned off. Picture: David Johnson


You can’t always get what you want - but you’d be a fool to cry about £380 under your thumb.

A cigarette packet with the autographs of the Rolling Stones on it fetched that sum when it went under the hammer at a Cambridge auction.

As the News reported, local music aficionado Bob Wickham put the rock memorabilia up for sale via city auctioneers Cheffins, and it was expected to go for between £200 and £400.

Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, and Charlie Watts all signed their autographs for him when he went to a gig at Cambridge’s Rex ballroom in 1963, before they had enjoyed their first hit.

Mr Wickham said: “It’s a bit disappointing. I thought someone might have paid over the £400, in view of the fact it was signed by the original band, but at the end of the day, it was only a fag packet.

“I don’t know who bought it, but I still have something they don’t - I was there to see them play.”


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