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The macarbre souvenir was given to Lennon's former housekeeper Dot Jarlett when she worked for him at Kenwood mansion in Surrey in the late 1960s.
He told her to give it to her daughter "as a souvenir" after he had pulled it out in the kitchen of the Weybridge property.
Karen Fairweather, from Omega Auctions, said: "This is the most wonderful and weird item that we have ever had for sale".
The tooth is expected to raise upwards of 15 thousand dollars when it's auctioned in Manchester on November 5.
Source: BBC News 
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John Winston Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th...
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