Sell or Auction Your 1955 Gibson Les Paul Electric Guitar for up to Over $30,000 or More at Nate D. Sanders Auctions
FREE APPRAISAL. To buy, auction, sell or consign your 1955 Gibson Les Paul electric guitar that is for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).
Sell Your 1955 Gibson Les Paul Electric Guitar
The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952. The Les Paul was designed by Gibson president Ted McCarty, factory manager John Huis and their team with input from and endorsement by guitarist Les Paul. Its typical design features a solid mahogany body with a carved maple top and a single cutaway, a mahogany set-in neck with a rosewood fretboard, two pickups with independent volume and tone controls, and a stoptail bridge, although variants exist.
Below is a recent realized price for a 1955 Gibson Les Paul electric guitar. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:
1955 Gibson Les Paul Electric Guitar. Sold for over $30,000.
Here are some items we have sold in the past at Nate D. Sanders Auctions:
Gibson Les Paul Custom 1977 Guitar, Randy Rhoads Model — In Hardshell Gibson Case
Gibson Les Paul Custom 1977 electric guitar, the Randy Rhoads model in Alpine White, aged to a creamy yellow. With Gibson gold-plated hardware and mother-of-pearl inlay. Guitar is exceedingly well-preserved, only lightly played and housed in its Gibson hardshell case. Made in Nashville, guitar’s serial number is 72627576. Weighs 10 lbs., 5 oz. Near fine condition with no significant flaws. Sold for $3,781.
David Crosby’s Own Gibson ES-335 Guitar — From His Days in “The Byrds”
David Crosby’s personally owned and played Gibson guitar, used by Crosby in “The Byrds,” one of the most influential bands of the 1960’s. Crosby’s role in “The Byrds” from the iconic group’s formation in 1964 until his departure in 1967 garnered him his first of two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Guitar is the widely recognized Gibson ES-335, with a Bigsby Vibrato tailpiece tremolo. Dating to 1958, this model was the first electric guitar to introduce the semi-hollow body design. Neck is one-piece mahogany beneath a rosewood fingerboard with mother of pearl inlays. Measures 16.5″ wide, 20″ long, and 1.75″ deep. Housed in a black hardshell case lined in orange velvet. Scattered nicks and bumping to top of headstock, else near fine. With an LOA from David Crosby. Sold for $25,428.
Jon Bon Jovi Stage Played & Signed Acoustic-Electric Guitar
Jon Bon Jovi’s guitar, played onstage by Jon in Dallas on 10 April 2010 during Bon Jovi’s Circle Tour, and signed in gold marker by him. Takamine acoustic-electric guitar is serial #08120413, housed in Takamine hard-shell guitar case. Lot also includes a Bon Jovi backstage pass from their April 10th Dallas performance, as well as a photo of Bon Jovi playing this guitar in Dallas, and a 10” x 8” signed photo. Some light scuffing to body, more so on back, but overall near fine. Accompanied by paperwork from JBJ Soul Foundation. A fantastic rock collectible. Sold for $18,750.
Eddie Van Halen Personally Designed, Stage Played & Signed Guitar
Eddie Van Halen personally designed (hand-striped) custom guitar, owned and played onstage by Eddie at the 30 January 2008 show in Little Rock, Arkansas. Charvel guitar is signed by Eddie in silver marker, with the Little Rock concert date also written by him as well as “Van Halen / 2008”. In custom EVH (Eddie Van Halen) Charvel guitar case measuring 41.5″ x 15″ x 4″, and with COA signed by Eddie Van Halen. Near fine condition. A fantastic rock collectible personally designed, played and signed by one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Sold for $15,725.
Gibson ES-335 Electric Guitar 1966
1966 Gibson ES-335 electric guitar designed during the apex of Ted McCarty’s stewardship of Gibson. Features matching headstock and soundhole labels and all original parts. Accompanied by hardshell case. Mild scratching to pickguard, otherwise mint condition. Sold for $7,864.
Bob Dylan signed Martin acoustic guitar, a D-15 Mahogany Top Dreadnought, with serial number 874444. Guitar is made entirely of mahogany (rather than sapele wood), with East Indian Rosewood on the fingerboard and bridge, prized by guitar connoisseurs on its own, with this one specially signed by legend Bob Dylan. Guitar is near fine in its original Martin hard shell case. Dylan signs the body ”To Tom – / Bob Dylan”, inscribed to Tom Donnarumma, the GM of Columbia Records, whose 22.5” x 17.5” gold RIAA award for Dylan’s ”Time Out of Mind” accompanies the guitar. With Roger Epperson COA. Sold for $6,875.
FREE APPRAISAL. To buy, auction, sell or consign your 1955 Gibson Les Paul electric guitar that is for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).
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