One of George Harrison’s earliest guitars is to be sold in Nashville on 17th October and hopes to sell for close to $1,000,000!
George Harrison Futurama Guitar
Not to be confused with the late 1990s TV show, this 65-year-old guitar is heading to auction in Nashville, Tennessee with Julien’s Auctions.
Originally bought by Harrison’s mother under a 44 instalment hire purchase agreement, the Futurama guitar was played by George Harrison when he was an apprentice electrician at the end of the 1950s.
Currently on display at The Museum Of Liverpool, what’s so special about this guitar? Other than the fact that it was owned and played by one of the Fab Four.
Futurama Guitar
Well, he had to work Eight Days A Week to pay for it, a whopping £58 back in the 1950s. Visually, we’ve got a tempting sunburst finish which would have looked fantastic when the world was in black and white…
The Futurama guitar also has three single-coil pickups, very reminiscent of a Fender Stratocaster. Back when strats were very rare, pioneered by the likes of Buddy Holly pre-1960s.
The Beatles played at the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool hundreds of times, with this guitar allegedly having made over 300 appearances. Therefore, it does have genuine Beatles provenance.
Going Once, Going Twice…
Julien’s Auctions have said that they are ‘estimating, conservatively, 600,000 to 800,000 US dollars‘. Although they ‘think it should sell for more than a million‘.
I have reason to believe that this will be a well-sought-after collector’s piece, considering that the same auction house sold John Lennon’s Hootenanny acoustic for $2.3 million earlier this year.
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