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Paul McCartney: A Rosetti Airstream 3 guitar used for a recording session with the duo Drew & Dy in 1968, circa early 1960s, image 1
Paul McCartney: A Rosetti Airstream 3 guitar used for a recording session with the duo Drew & Dy in 1968, circa early 1960s, image 2
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Paul McCartney: A Rosetti Airstream 3 guitar used for a recording session with the duo Drew & Dy in 1968,
circa early 1960s,

28 June 2017, 12:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Paul McCartney: A Rosetti Airstream 3 guitar used for a recording session with the duo Drew & Dy in 1968,

circa early 1960s,
made in Holland by Egmond, the double-cutaway body finished in red sunburst and with plaque detailing use by Paul McCartney, three pickups with three controls and three selectors, toggle swtich, tailpiece with tremolo arm, pearloid scratchplate, rosewood fingerboard with multi-dot markers, headstock with model name, in rectangular, hard, plush-lined plastic case, guitar 38½in (98cm) long

Footnotes

Drew & Dy were a duo formed by schoolfriends Keith Drewett and Peter Dymond in 1963. After releasing a single on the Major Minor label in 1967, a chance meeting in London with Paul McCartney led to them being signed to Apple. On 12th August 1968, at Trident Studios, Paul produced and played with the duo on three tracks. The guitar comes with a letter of provenance from Peter Dymond, several black and white photographs taken at the session, laminated copies of letters to the duo from Apple Publishing (May/June '68) and a cassette copy of the three tracks.

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