Live Auction 3135Pop Culture: Rock and Pop Memorabilia
Eric Clapton
Lot 46

Eric Clapton

Closed15 November 2011

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GBP 6,875

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Eric Clapton
A 1980s Fender Stratocaster Elite model in cream finish, maple neck with skunk-stripe routing, twenty-one fret fingerboard with dot inlays, three Fender Elite-style pickups, three rotary controls, selector switch, active electronics, side-mounted jack input, Freeflyte combination tailblock and white pickguard; and a tweed rectangular hardshell case with red plush lining and Lee Dickson's handwritten adhesive paper label Fender 'Elite' Strat. White, /? None' (2)

Ex-lot 89, Crossroads Guitar Auction Eric Clapton and Friends for the Crossroads Centre, Christie's New York, 24 June 2004

Specialist note

The Fender Elite was launched in 1983. This guitar is a hybrid with a 1950s-style neck with a butterscotch finish and a standard selector switch.
Eric Clapton said that he "messed around" with this guitar. The guitar was photographed backstage at Yoyogi Olympic Pool, Tokyo beside a selection of his stage guitars during Clapton's 1985 Japanese Tour.