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.

The Quiet Beatle’s 1958 Resonet Futurama solid body electric guitar was up for sale at Nashville’s Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum as part of Julien’s Auctions Played, Worn & Torn II two-day event.

The first song that George Harrison wrote for The Beatles is 1963's 'Don't Bother Me' which he would later criticise by saying it wasn't "particularly good".

A guitar bought by George Harrison for about 58 British pounds ($73) has sold at auction for more than 1 million British pounds ($1.27 million).

A guitar bought by George Harrison for about £58 (€70) has sold at auction for $1.27 million (€1.2 million).

A guitar owned by George Harrison just sold for an eye-popping $1.27 million at auction. It’s the highest-ever auction price for a guitar owned by the former Beatle. The early, Beatles-era Futurama guitar once owned by Harrison was the showpiece item in Julien’s Auction’s “Played,

A guitar bought by George Harrison for about £58 has sold at auction for more than £1 million. The Futurama electric guitar was bought by The Beatles star when he was a 16-year-old apprentice electrician in 1959 and was paid for in 44 instalments after his mother signed a hire purchase agreement at Frank Hessy’s music shop in Liverpool.

The oddball electric – which was used during the Beatles’ early years, and saw action in over 300 historic shows – becomes the most expensive electric guitar formerly owned by a Beatle to sell at auct