Rock Style from The Boyd Collection 
27 June 2019
Rock Style from The Boyd Collection 
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Gretsch

1965 6120 Chet Atkins Nashville electric guitar

USA, 1965
lacquered wood, steel, aluminum, ebony, plastic, vinyl, brass 42½ h × 16 w × 4 d in (108 × 41 × 10 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $2,860
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Serial number: 77201
Inlaid to headstock ‘Gretsch’. Label to headstock ‘Chet Atkins Nashville Model’. Printed to pickguard ‘Chet Atkins Nashville Gretsch’. Stamped to reverse of headstock ‘Made in USA 77201’. Engraved to pickups ‘US Pat 2892371’. Engraved to tremolo ‘Gretsch by Bigsby’. Stamped to tuners ‘Grover USA’. Sold with period hardshell case.

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Chet Atkins playing the prototype Gretsch that would lead to the development of his model 6120.

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