Deep Purple/Ritchie Blackmore

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Deep Purple/Ritchie Blackmore
A 1961 Gibson ES 335 Thinline electric guitar, serial number 26457 in a cherry finish, double cutaway body, mahogany neck, Kluson machineheads, twenty-two fret bound rosewood fingerboard with dot inalys, two Humbucker pickups, four rotary controls, selector, tune-o-matic bridge, Bigsby tremolo tailpiece; and black hardshell case, stencilled on the front and back 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 Ritchie Blackmore playing this guitar on stage with Deep Purple, circa 1968, largest -- 8½x6½in. (20.2x16.5cm.) (4)

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

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