With bidding starting at $1.2 million, Nate D. Sanders Auctions will host the event for the guitar, which is signed and is inscribed: ''To Doc, Love & Prescriptions / Keith Richards.’’
The guitar was custom-made for Richards by his go-to luthier Ted Newman Jones, whose mother-of-pearl inset on the back of the guitar reads ''N 77,’’ indicating the year it was made, shortly before the recording sessions for ''Some Girls'' in October 1977.
Richards is photographed holding the guitar in ''Rolling Stones Gear: All the Stones' Instruments from Stage to Studio'' by Andy Babiuk and Greg Prevost, and guitar is further accompanied by a Letter of Authenticity by Babiuk who writes at length about it, giving the history of the guitar.
The letter reads in part, ''This instrument was a guitar that Newman built for Keith copying the style of a Fender Telecaster body and using an actual Fender Telecaster Rosewood Model neck...Keith used the guitar as Newman originally built it for the Rolling Stones Some Girls recordings, video and on the 1978 Some Girls tour.''
The auction provides a rare opportunity for fans and collectors to own one of the very few guitars used by Richards with the Stones ever to be sold.
The Rolling Stones will issue their previously unreleased 1989 concert film, “Steel Wheels Live – Atlantic City, New Jersey”, on September 25.
The project, which captures the band during a three-night stand at the Atlantic City Convention Center, mixes tracks from the group’s studio album of the same name with classics from their extensive catalog during the 2.5 hour show. See also:
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