Deep Purple/Ritchie Blackmore

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Deep Purple/Ritchie Blackmore
A 1961 Gibson ES-335 thinline electric guitar, Serial No. 26457, in cherry red finish, double cutaway body, mahogany neck, Kluson machineheads, 22 fret bound rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, two Humbucker pickups, four rotary controls, selector switch, tune-o-matic bridge, Bigsby tremolo tailpiece; and black hardshell case, stencilled on the front and back in white lettering DEEP PURPLE; accompanied by a colour snap-shot of Blackmore playing the guitar on stage with The Three Muskateers circa 1965 -- 3½x5in. (9x12.7cm.); and two black and white photographs of him playing it on stage with Deep Purple, circa 1968, largest -- 8½x6½in. (20.2x16.5cm.) (5)

Provenance

Ex-Lot 48, Pop And Guitars, Christie's South Kensignton, 7th September, 1995, formerly the property of Barbel Blackmore.

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Lot Essay

According to Barbel Blackmore, Ritchie Blackmore played this guitar with Deep Purple between 1968-1971. Film footage of Blackmore playing it at the Royal Albert Hall with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on September 24th, 1969 was included in the Deep Purple episode of the 1990s t.v. series Rock Family Trees.

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