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<\/picture><\/div>\nKurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E guitar, famously played in Nirvana’s historic 1993 “MTV Unplugged” performance, has smashed the world record price for a guitar at auction, selling for US$6,000,010 at a Julien’s auction in Hollywood today.<\/p>\n
The guitar obliterates the previous world record of $3.975 million set by Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour’s “Black Strat” just 12 months ago, and continues a remarkable trend of ever-increasing prices at auction for guitars played by the guitar gods that have provided the soundtrack to our lives.<\/p>\n
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In becoming the World’s Most Expensive Guitar, Cobain’s $6,010,000 million Martin also smashed the record for the World’s Most Expensive Acoustic Guitar (previously $2.41 million for John Lennon’s Gibson J-160E<\/a>), the World’s Most Expensive Martin Guitar (previously $1,095,000 for Dave Gilmour’s 1969 C.F. Martin D-35<\/a>) and came within a whisker of becoming the World’s Most Expensive Piece of Entertainment Memorabilia.<\/p>\n This last accolade is an astonishing feat, as the acoustic guitar is now in second place on our top 10 entertainment memorabilia list, having surpassed the $5.52 million paid for Marilyn Monroe’s “subway dress” from the 1955 feature film The Seven Year Itch<\/em>, the $5.375 million paid for Robby the Robot<\/a><\/em> from the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet<\/em>, and the $4.62 million paid for the Batmobile from Batman<\/em> (1966).<\/p>\n Tags:<\/b> Ann<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Kurt Cobain’s “MTV Unplugged” Martin guitar sold for $6,000,010 at Julien’s Auctions in Hollywood on June 20, 2020, becoming the most expensive guitar ever sold Kurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E guitar, famously played in Nirvana’s historic 1993 “MTV Unplugged” performance, has smashed the world record price for a guitar at auction, selling for US$6,000,010 at … Continue reading Kurt Cobain’s “MTV Unplugged” Martin guitar sells for record $6 million<\/span><\/a> Continue Reading