Anyone Bidding on the David Gilmour Guitar Collection Today ?

[Profreedomokie]

I guess I posted this a little late but, anyone a Pink Floyd or Gilmour fan that wants to own one of his guitars ? The famous "Black Strat" is expected to bring at least 150K. There are 6 string,12 string,steel, 4 and 5 string bass guitars, and banjos. I think there are 127 items on the block for bid. It starts this morning at 9 AM on Christie's webpage.

 

[rlongnt]

He's amazing. I watched a video where he said "there's nothing special about an instrument until it's put in the hands of the artist. It's time for these to move on and find another home." He's 90% of the reason I play Strats, Jimi is the rest. I can play Comfortably Numb and actually watch my blood pressure drop in real time. An absolutely amazing artist!

 

[Profreedomokie]

Black strat just brought 3.3 million at Christie's auction.

 

[rlongnt]

Black strat just brought 3.3 million at Christie's auction.

Shhhh. Don’t tell my wife I spent my entire retirement on it. I told her I traded a Glock for it. LOL

 

[Profreedomokie]

Rolling Stone said the black Strat went for $3,975,000. I was watching it live and could have sworn it was 3.3 million.

 

[AKguy1985]

I wish I had that kind of coin.

 

[MacFromOK]

Even if I had that kind of coin, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't spend it on a geetar...

 

[Glock 'em down]

Or Babe Ruth's late 1920's Yankees gray flannel road jersey that brought $5.64 million last weekend.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...sey-sells-million-record-price/?noredirect=on

 

[SoonerP226]

Rolling Stone said the black Strat went for $3,975,000. I was watching it live and could have sworn it was 3.3 million.

The hammer probably dropped at $3.3M, but the "buyer's premium" made up the difference. The house gots to get its vig somehow.

 

[Profreedomokie]

I had registered to bid. I saw a few guitars listed for $300 to $400. I thought well they will go a little higher. So I entered a ceiling of $2500 on my bidding. I don't think a single guitar went for less than 15K. There was a case listed for 1K. It turned out to be the case that Black Strat was shipped around in. The case started at 20K and sold for I think it was 130K. I think Christies weeds out the poor boys like me from bidding anyway. Not that I had enough play money for anything. But after 2 hours trying to get where I could bid, I got a pop up window that said that their site was overloaded and couldn't take anymore bidders. Someone in Ok. did bid 40K on one of the guitars. I don't think they won the bid.