One of Bob Dylan‘s most historic guitars was sold at auction for $396,500 on Saturday (November 11th). Rolling Stone reported Dylan’s classic Martin D-28 was famously used during George Harrison‘s legendary 1971 Concert For Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden, the recording of 1975’s Blood On The Tracks, and Dylan’s primary acoustic during his 1975/1976 Rolling Thunder Revue tour. The guitar — which sold for nearly $100,000 more than originally expected — was purchased in 1977 by Dylan’s guitar repairman Larry Cragg for $500. A copy of the receipt was also sold along with the guitar.
Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale of the guitar posted: “According to Cragg, he has kept the guitar in a humidity-controlled environment, with loosened strings for the forty years it’s been in his possession, and it has not been played since it was wielded by Bob Dylan in 1977.”
