Jimmy Page guitar from competition sells for £100k
The auctions sold a guitar that Led Zeppelin had previously belonged to Jimmy Page.
The New Musical Express (NME) magazine gave an instrument in a competition in 1974 after Page posed on the cover wearing cricket whites.
Musician Phil O’Donghue from Chessington bought the guitar from the winner of the competition and his family sold it after he died in 2025.
Gardiner Houlgate’s auction Luke Hobbs said that sales “exceed all expectations”.
Wiltshire Auctions Before 1957 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 Elect Guitar He would take it up to £ 50,000.
The guitar was sold in a photo that grew up in Surrey and gave the guitar to Charles Reid, who won the competition from London.
Page told Nme that he bought the guitar in 1972 in the United States in 1972.
Mr. Hobbs said: “Among all the instruments associated with the artist, it was my favorite journey for both the extraordinary story behind it and for the rareness of the artist.”
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