The guitar, a Höfner 500/1 electric bass, was purchased by McCartney for around $37 in 1961 from a shop in Hamburg and said to be his “favorite,” according to The Lost Bass Project, the group ...

McCartney bought the left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass for around 30 pounds ($38) ($585 in today's money) in Hamburg in 1961, during The Beatles' four-month residency at the Top Ten Club.

“I got my Violin Bass at the Steinway shop in the town center. I remember going along and there was this bass which was quite cheap,” he said in a 1993 interview with Guitar Magazine, adding ...

Surely if anyone can find this guitar, it's you guys Paul McCartney The bass guitar, featured on the band's early breakthrough smashes, including Love Me Do, She Loves You and I Wanna Hold Your Hand, ...

McCartney bought the left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass for around £30 — about £550 ($585) today — in Hamburg in 1961, during The Beatles' four-month residency at the Top Ten Club.

But it could end up looking very different, given that it’s been missing for decades. “The bass was in need of repairs and so it was sent to a firm in London, early in 1964, who carried these out.

McCartney bought the left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass for around £30 -- about £550 ($585) today -- in Hamburg in 1961, during The Beatles' four-month residency at the Top Ten Club.