Lot Essay
After his performance at the at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, on 21 June 2011, as part of the Warsaw Summer Jazz Days festival, luthier Marek Witkowski presented Jeff Beck with this three-quarter size copy of his signature white Stratocaster as a gift for his 67th birthday. The headstock was marked Jeff 1944 for Beck’s year of birth. In video footage of the presentation of the guitar, Jeff notes that the guitar is three-quarter scale – ‘Fantastic!’ – and remarks that he will enjoy it on the bus.