Claire Tole-Moir
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Lot 40†
Gary Moore: A Gibson Gary Moore Signature Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar, 1999,
20 November 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Gary Moore: A Gibson Gary Moore Signature Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar,
1999,
serial no. 90559518 impressed to rear of headstock with Made In U.S.A., single-cut mahogany body with bookmatched carved maple top, lemon burst finish, two zebra humbuckers with four clear gold bonnet controls and three-way selector, mahogany neck with unbound Indian rosewood fingerboard, trapezoid markers, headstock with Standard truss rod cover and inlay, Gibson Deluxe tuners, also with small sticker marked 1, in plush-lined shaped Gibson hardshell case with strap and one strap peg, tape to the outside inscribed Prototype One G.M. Signature in black marker,
guitar 39 1/4in (99.5cm) long
serial no. 90559518 impressed to rear of headstock with Made In U.S.A., single-cut mahogany body with bookmatched carved maple top, lemon burst finish, two zebra humbuckers with four clear gold bonnet controls and three-way selector, mahogany neck with unbound Indian rosewood fingerboard, trapezoid markers, headstock with Standard truss rod cover and inlay, Gibson Deluxe tuners, also with small sticker marked 1, in plush-lined shaped Gibson hardshell case with strap and one strap peg, tape to the outside inscribed Prototype One G.M. Signature in black marker,
guitar 39 1/4in (99.5cm) long
Footnotes
This guitar is particularly interesting as it was the original prototype for the 1999/2000 Gibson Gary Moore Signature Les Paul. It has a huge neck profile, possibly copied from the Joe Perry Signature model at the time. This was subsequently reduced for the second prototype and the final retail model.
The pickups that are fitted are possibly standard Gibson Classic 57 Humbuckers, as the new Burstbuckers were not yet available; these were shipped after the second prototype had arrived, by which time a selection of pickups had been tried on the second prototype.
The guitar offered here can be seen on the back cover artwork for the Back To The Blues CD, 2001.