NEW YORK, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The electric guitar Bob Dylan
played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when the acoustic
troubadour shocked traditionalists with a set of rock and roll,
sold for $965,000 on Friday, a world auction record for a
guitar, Christie's said.
The 1964 Fender Stratocaster, along with five song lyrics
left on a private airplane by the songwriter and his band in the
months after the Rhode Island festival, were part of six lots in
a special sale of Dylan material in New York.
"A tremendous amount of international interest was generated
at the time of the sale's announcement, and today's result
justifies the mythic status of this guitar in the annals of
music history," Tom Lecky, a specialist at Christie's, said in a
statement.
An absentee bidder bought the Fender Stratocaster with a
classic sunburst finish, its original case and black leather
guitar strap for nearly double its high pre-sale estimate.
The previous auction record for a guitar was for Eric
Clapton's Fender Stratocaster, which fetched $959,500 in 2004.
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