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The Spencer Davis Collection
Lot 30Y

A Spencer Davis Grimshaw GS30 Electric Guitar

13 – 22 January 2025, 12:00 PST
Online, Los Angeles

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A Spencer Davis Grimshaw GS30 Electric Guitar

c.1969, serial number 326, black finish, mahogany body and neck, hardwood fretboard with mother of pearl inlay and bone nut with personalized pickguard reading "Spen" (originally "Spencer"), in hardshell case.

Condition: repair to back of headstock, replaced tuners, missing inlays to fretboard at 3rd and 15th fret, stress cracks to body at neck joint, buckle rash to back, strap button detached but present.
Guitar 38 7/8 in long.

Footnotes

Grimshaw Guitars was a British manufacturer active from the 1930s-1980s, and especially successful in the 1950s-60s when access to US-made guitars was difficult for British musicians. Spencer Davis is photographed with this guitar often, including on a DVD cover of his early hits issued in the 1990s.

Provenance:
The Spencer Davis Collection.

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