Details
Deep Purple/Ritchie Blackmore
A 1968 Gibson SG Standard guitar, Serial No. 524696, in cherry red finish, double cutaway mahogany body, mahogany neck, Grover machineheads, 22 fret bound rosewood fingerboard with crown inlays, two Humbucker pickups, four rotary controls, selector switch, tune-o-matic bridge, tremolo tailpiece and black pickguard; with black hardshell case stencilled on the front and back in white lettering DEEP PURPLE -- played by Ritchie Blackmore with Deep Purple between 1968-1971 (2)
A 1968 Gibson SG Standard guitar, Serial No. 524696, in cherry red finish, double cutaway mahogany body, mahogany neck, Grover machineheads, 22 fret bound rosewood fingerboard with crown inlays, two Humbucker pickups, four rotary controls, selector switch, tune-o-matic bridge, tremolo tailpiece and black pickguard; with black hardshell case stencilled on the front and back in white lettering DEEP PURPLE -- played by Ritchie Blackmore with Deep Purple between 1968-1971 (2)
Provenance
Ex-Lot 47, Pop And Guitars, Christie's South Kensington, 7th September, 1995, formerly the property of Barbel Blackmore.
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