One of Kurt Cobain's favourite electric guitars, used frequently on Nirvana's In Utero tour, has sold for $1,587,500 via Julien's Auctions in Nashville over the weekend (18 November). An auction that also saw a pair of the late musician's Levi's jeans fetch $412,750 and an unopened pack of his cigarettes reach $5,200.
While those latter items sold for far above their estimates, the 1993 custom-made Japanese Fender Mustang Skystang I's final figure fell within the estimated $1-2 million range, and far short of the $4.5 million that his 1969 Competition Mustang sold for to set a world record for a guitar value at auction in 2022.
