A 1987 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature Model

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A 1987 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature Model
Serial No. V025609, in custom '7-Up' green metallic 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 and white pickguard; and a tweed rectangular hardshell case with red plush lining and Lee Dickson's handwritten label E.C. Green Stratocaster E.C. Model 025609 and adhesive paper label similarly inscribed

Fender supplied this guitar to Eric Clapton in 1987.

Eric Clapton said that he used this guitar a great deal. He thinks this colour is "great". He calls it '7-Up' green after the colour on the fizzy-drink can of the same name. Clapton commissioned the custom paintwork on this guitar and on lot 78.
Fender Strat/7-Up Green

Lot Essay

See note on p.8 and footnote to lots 62 and 78.

The stage-shot illustrated shows Eric Clapton with this guitar or its partner in lot 78 during the African Tour, July, 1989.

This guitar (with a different neck) is pictured in the Terry O'Neill backstage shot on p.79.

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