Rock Blues icon Rory Gallagher’s signature Fender Stratocaster guitar has reaped €841,000 at auction with a ‘premium’ on the item bringing the total to roughly €1,068,000.
The late Donegal-born star’s 1961 Sunburst Fender Stratocaster was auctioned at Bonham’s Auction House on Thursday.
It joined around 150 instruments and other items in the collection from the Gallagher estate, managed by Gallagher’s brother and former manager Dónal Gallagher.
The guitar, which Gallagher bought second-hand for IR£100 on credit from Crowley’s in Cork in 1963, went up for sale at an estimated £750k to £1 million stg.
One of the world’s most instantly recognisable guitars, the instrument became synonymous with the legend.
Playing both as a solo artist and with his band Taste, Gallagher sold more than 30 million records worldwide throughout his career. He died unexpectedly in 1995 following complications from a liver transplant, at the age of 47.
