John Lennon's round glasses sell for nearly $200000

Glasses from the estate of John Lennon are pictured during a press conference on Nov. 21, 2017 in Berlin. German police on Nov. 20, 2017 had arrested a 58-year-old man in Berlin on suspicion of handling the stolen items, including the late Beatle's diaries. The items were stolen from Lennon's widow Yoko Ono in New York in 2006. (dpa / AFP /Maurizio Gambarini)

A pair of John Lennon's sunglasses The Beatles legend once left behind in the back seat of a car sold Friday for nearly $200,000 at an auction in London.

Billed as one of the most famous specs in rock-and-roll, the round, green-tinted lenses and their golden frame belonged to Alan Herring, the chauffeur for the Liverpool quartet's drummer Ringo Starr and band mate George Harrison.

Source: The Jakarta Post/thejakartapost.com

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