Lennon's guitar sells for $2.4m at auction

An acoustic guitar that John Lennon used to record and write Love Me Do, I Want to Hold Your Hand and other hit songs sold for $2.4 million at auction.

Julien's Auctions said the Gibson J-160E was sold on Saturday to an undisclosed buyer.

The auction house said the guitar was one of only two of its type flown from the United States to the United Kingdom in 1962 for Lennon and George Harrison. Lennon used the guitar for about a year before swapping it with Harrison. It later disappeared during a Christmas concert in 1963.