An extremely uncommon acoustic guitar, owned and performed by each George Harrison and Eric Clapton, has been listed on the market on Reverb.

The guitar, a 1913 Gibson Fashion O archtop mannequin, is rated as “museum-grade”, and is from the Property of Delaney Bramlett (its late proprietor). In accordance with the itemizing, Bramlett additionally used the guitar in songwriting circles in the course of the creation of tracks like Let It Rain and different works that helped launch Clapton’s solo profession, the formation of Derek & The Dominos, and Harrison’s All Issues Should Go period.

Reverb store Victor Vault particulars an unimaginable historical past for the guitar, which was nicknamed as ‘Pattie’. Clapton and Harrison used it throughout their collaborations in 1968 close to the top of each The Beatles and Cream, as they each started their very own profession endeavours.

It was additionally performed and subsequently photographed in-use throughout their earliest songwriting periods for Badge, which befell in October 1968. The itemizing states that the music was recorded the exact same week in the course of the periods for Cream’s Goodbye album at Wally Heider Studios, Hollywood.

“George would re-use the bridge portion of Badge, referring to the bridge of Right here Comes The Solar as The Son Of Badge within the authentic lyrics sheet – owing to its shockingly comparable compositional parts and giving this instrument an especially distinctive connection to each Cream AND The Beatles closing albums,” the outline reads.

Pattie has been authenticated and forensically matched. It has a mid-century Gibson L-48 archtop tailpiece (put in by Clapton/Bramlett period luthier, Milt Owen), Nineteen Fifties/60s Gibson 3×3 strip tuners, and has a mid 60s Gibson Classic onerous shell case.

The guitar was refinished round 1968 and touched up within the trendy period, however the date of that is unknown. It has had a number of repairs, together with a period-correct neck reset, fretboard binding repairs (seen in each classic and trendy photographs), a bridge substitute, and a “skilled playability restoration” refret.

This guitar has an asking value of $949,999 USD, and greatest affords will probably be thought-about. You’ll want to succeed in out to the store straight in the event you’re , and it’s listed as native pick-up solely in Berlin, New Jersey, USA.

To view extra data or contact the store, head to Reverb.