A 1996 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature Model

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A 1996 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature Model
Serial No. CN504689, in custom black/green metallic finish, custom shop neckplate, maple neck with skunk-stripe routing, twenty-two fret fingerboard with dot inlays, three Fender Lace Sensor pickups, three rotary controls, selector switch, tremolo bridge/tailblock and white pickguard; and a black hardshell contour case with black plush lining and Lee Dickson's handwritten adhesive paper label M.Kendrick Black Green Fender-Strat /?C.N.504689 Merc. C.36

Mark Kendrick of Fender supplied this guitar to Eric Clapton in 1996.

Eric Clapton used this guitar on tour in the 1990s and on the Pilgrim album. Clapton had this guitar sprayed with a Mercedes paint colour to match the Mercedes C36 he owned at the time.
Fender Strat/Black/Green

Lot Essay

See footnote to lot 39.

Although this colour is called black/green, it looks blue in different lighting.

The photograph illustrated shows Eric Clapton playing this guitar or it's partner in lot 39 at the Masters Of Music Concert for The Prince's Trust, Hyde Park, London, June 29, 1996. Clapton apparently played a set that mixed various blues numbers with his popular hits, typical of the period. It was the first time that Clapton played at Hyde Park since June 1969 when he appeared there with Blind Faith. The concert was filmed and released as a video, Eric Clapton at Hyde Park.

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