A left-handed sky blue Fender Mustang custom-made for the late Kurt Cobain in 1993 is set to go under the hammer.
Scott Zimmerman built the Nirvana frontman the guitar for the band’s In Utero tour. The guitar features a red mottled pickguard, and the headstock has a small decal reading”Offset Contour Body Patented.” The axe was further customized by Cobain’s guitar tech, who added a black Seymour Duncan JB pickup, and a Gotoh Tune-o-Matic bridge.
Courtney Love gifted the guitar to a fan three months after Cobain passed. The gift was accompanied by a letter, claiming that the Mustang was “was one of his favourite guitars.” The guitar is set to be sold with the handwritten letter, original hardshell case and the FEDEX shipping document from Love.
Bidding for the guitar starts at a cool $75,000 and is expected to reach anywhere between $300,000 and $500,000. If you’ve got that kind of nosh, you can bid on the guitar here.
The same auction house will also be flogging the iconic green cardigan worn by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana’s seminal performance on MTV Unplugged in 1993. The sweater, which has not been washed, features a burn hole and discolouration on both pockets.
In related news, next month, Nirvana will be dropping a special edition vinyl reissue of MTV Unplugged. On November 1st, fans will be able to snaffle up a new pressing will feature five rehearsal performances of tracks that were previously only available on DVD: ‘Come As You Are’, ‘Polly’, ‘Plateau’, ‘Pennyroyal Tea’, and ‘The Man Who Sold the World’. Revisit their performance of ‘All Apologies’ below.
Watch: Nirvana – ‘All Apologies’ live on MTV Unplugged
