Les Paul #1 Prototype Up For Auction

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Les Paul #1 Prototype Up For Auction

Post by Jim Fogle »

If you have a spare $100,000 - $150,000 on hand you might enjoy owning the first Gibson Les Paul ever manufactured.

The official Christie's auction webpage is labeled "A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR KNOWN AS NUMBER ONE LES PAUL MODEL ARTIST'S PROTOTYPE". Believe it or not the webpage has a lot of good reading. https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-63386 ... mary&lid=1
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More like $930,000. Plus.
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Post by Bill Sinclair »

Yoiks! Somebody wanted that guitar really bad. Looks like it included one of Les Paul's Ampex console tape recorders and the bar stool he used during his stint at Fat Tuesdays.
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Post by Dan Kelly »

Yeah, I quit bidding somewhere around $835,000... It needed a fret job and the the pots were a little scratchy! :-)
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Gibson on the Head ?

Post by George Piburn »

In my limited understanding, Gibson refused to put a Gibson Logo on the first Les Paul's.

Somewhere it is written that the conversation included , "What are we going to call this thing?", and the answer was Les Paul.

Am I Correct?
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