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Lot 109Y

Eric Clapton: A Martin 000-ECHF Bellezza Bianca acoustic guitar,
2004,

12 June 2019, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Eric Clapton: A Martin 000-ECHF Bellezza Bianca acoustic guitar,

2004,
serial no. 1000306, inside with label signed by C.F. Martin IV, Eric Clapton, Hiroshi Fujiwara and Dick Boak, Prototype 4 of 4, gloss white finish, maple back and sides, spruce top with fine herringbone purfling, ivoroid binding, ebony tail-piece, mahogany neck, bound ebony fingerboard with mother-of-pearl 'snowflake' markers and Bellazza Bianca inlay, headstock with ebony facing and mother-of-pearl 'alternative torch' inlay, silver-plated machineheads, in Martin shaped hardshell, white faux skin case with white plush lining, with copy of 'The Sounding Board', Volume 20, January 2006, which features an article on this model, guitar 39¾in (101cm) long

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Provenance:
This guitar was the fourth of four prototypes built for Eric Clapton. Prototype No.3 (with a scratchplate) was sold as Lot 15, The Eric Clapton Sale Of Guitars And Amps In Aid Of The Crossroads Centre, Bonhams New York, 9th March 2011.

Model 000-ECHF Bellazza Bianca ('White Beauty') was designed in collaboration with Eric Clapton and the Japanese fashion designer and music producer, Hiroshi Fujiwara, and was introduced as a limited edition guitar in 2005, following the production of the Bellazza Nera in 2004.

Clapton can be seen playing the song Love In Vain on a similar, non-scratchplate Bellezza Bianca at the Hotel Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica on 14th August 2004. The location was chosen to evoke blues legend Robert Johnson's first recordings made in a makeshift studio at a hotel room in San Antonio in 1936. These sessions were released on the video Sessions For Robert J. in 2004. The designs of the CD/DVD discs echoed the black and white soundhole rosette of the Bellezza models.

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