Lot 63
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A c. 1987 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature Model
A c. 1987 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature Model

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A c. 1987 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature Model
Serial No. SE803563, in custom Torino red finish, 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, white pickguard and black strap with locking plastic plates; and a tweed rectangular hardshell case with red plush lining and Lee Dickson's handwritten tie-on label Red E.C. Strat 'Slide' /?SE803563 and adhesive paper label similarly inscribed

This guitar has been set up for slide with a high nut. It has two adhesive 'prompt' labels on the back of the headstock with black printed lettering D TUNE and G TUNE.

According to Lee Dickson, Eric Clapton used this guitar on the Journeyman album and on stage in the late 1980s. Clapton said that he chose this shade of red to match the Ferrari he owned at the time. It is actually a Ferrari paint colour - Torino red. Lee Dickson said that he thought that this guitar or the one in lot 67 was played by either George Harrison or Andy Fairweather Low during the 1991 Japanese Tour.
Fender Strat/Red
Literature
FORTE, Dan, Tribute To Slowhand Interview in Guitar World, Harris Publications Inc., December, 1989

Lot Essay

See note on p.8

According to an interview with Dan Forte, Clapton used the signature model throughout the Journeyman (November 1989) sessions with the exception of the track Hard Times, for which he used a ES-335.

The stage-shot illustrated shows Buddy Guy in concert with Clapton, playing this guitar or it's partner in lot 67 at Alpine Valley, East Troy, Wisconsin, August 26, 1990.

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