The iconic blue guitar Kurt Cobain rocked out with in Nirvana’s seminal 90s Smells Like Teen Spirit music video is predicted to fetch as much as $800,000 when it goes up for public sale subsequent month.
With Smells Like Teen Spirit Racking up greater than 1.4 billion views on YouTube, the 1969 Blue Fender is arguably one of the well-known in rock, mentioned Martin Nolan, govt director of Julien’s Auctions.
“This is one of the most iconic guitars ever to come to the auction block, this is the blue Mustang Fender guitar, one of Kurt Cobain’s favorite guitars of all time,” mentioned Nolan, standing beside a show of Kurt Cobain memorabilia at Julien’s Auction’s Beverly Hills showroom.
“The guitar comes with its original case and, also, the guitar strap, so that’s … really important to collectors when they come to the auction to know the originality,” mentioned Nolan, who famous that the guitar has stayed with the household since Cobain’s demise in 1994.
The Cobain guitar is the star lot within the public sale home’s Music Icons public sale, going down in New York and on-line from May 20-22.
Nolan mentioned the public sale home has conservatively estimated a value vary for the guitar of $600,000 to $800,000 however famous “that is a really conservative public sale estimate.
“The public sale home mentioned a portion of the proceeds would go to a psychological well being charity.
The public sale additionally options different gadgets, together with an unique Kurt Cobain paintings of Michael Jackson, that’s anticipated to fetch as much as $40,000 (USD) and one in all his automobiles, a 1965 Dodge Dart, anticipated to fetch between $400,000 to $600,000.
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