“Of all the guitars in the world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite,” Kurt Cobain told Guitar World in his latest interview with the magazine. By this time (fall 1991), Nirvana’s seminal album, Nevermind, had already been released, but still Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl had been plunged headlong into extensive rotation and promotion.
A few months earlier, Nirvana had made an appearance at the Reading Festival in the UK, where Kurt was brandishing his black Fender Strat ‘Vandalism’, and this time, you’d most likely see him going for the much-changed and unique ’65 Jaguar, which has a desirable story of its own. In fact, when Nirvana returned to Reading in 1992, they were headliners, and the Jag is the electric guitar that stood out for most of the set.
However, between its release in August and its arrival at number one on the Billboard charts the following January, the music video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” racked up hours of relentless airplay, all featuring Cobain and his still-insanely cool Fender. Mustang Competition.
It wasn’t his first rodeo with a Mustang; Bleach era shots (including the album cover) show the first pillar of Cobain’s Mustang, which began life as a stripped-down ‘Stang’ that later included a homemade vinyl record scratch plate and Soundgarden decal before undergoing multiple adjustments to the ends (white and blue) before it finally met a similar fate as many of Cobain’s early guitars.
Kurt Cobain’s 1969 Fender Mustang Competition Guitar Smells Like Teen Spirit Sells at Auction for $4. 5 Million
It wouldn’t be the last, either. When it came time to tour for In Utero in 1993, Kurt relied heavily on his “favorite” guitars, giving rise to iconic photographs with a Mustang Fiesta Red or Sonic Blue, and as we discover, creating an even greater extension of the myth of the gear surrounding a counter guitar antihero who eschewed strategy and tone in favor of attitude and songwriting, And he won.
As Kurt Cobain’s 1969 Mustang Competition from the Smells Like Teen Spirit video sells for $4. 5 million through Julien’s Auctions, sign up for us as we delve into the world of Kurt’s most famous Fender Mustangs and find out why they could be the ultimate Cobain guitars.
In 1969, Fender brought a number of updates to the Mustang: its student style announced in 1964 and which evolved from the Sonic Duo. In addition to converting the frame of a panel to have a forearm contour, Fender brought its competition colors: 3 finishes. (Competition Orange, Competition Red and Burgundy Competition), complemented by contrasting “racing stripes” on the bottom of the frame, which continue on the back of the guitar.
Kurt Cobain’s Competition Mustang was finished in Competition Burgundy, a confusing title, because for all intents and purposes, it sounds a lot like Fender’s Lake Placid Blue, which is Kurt’s guitar label.
To complement this confusion, the 2012 Fender Kurt Cobain Mustang (a part, part, umbrella-shaped reproduction of Kurt’s love of the Mustang) was released in dark blue Lake Placid, with a light blue racing stripe included.
As with many guitar examples from this period, aging over time combined with striking video and level lighting (in Kurt’s case), and even deviations from his original output, means that not all Competition Burgundy paint jobs are created equal.
The call of the end comes from the addition of a violet hue, more visual on the edges of the old racing Mustangs, and as the images demonstrate, resulting in an obvious almost exploded effect, or on the contrary, as is the case with Kurt’s Mustang, a much less striking and more forged color.
In some images, Cobain’s guitar is turquoise, in others, a much darker blue. Either way, it’s this extra layer all the way through that gives Competition Blue/Competition Burgundy its name.
According to Julien’s Auctions, the Mustang was purchased between 1990 and 1991 and was used to record Nevermind. Since Nirvana was in Los Angeles recording Nevermind at Sound City Studios, it’s highly likely that Kurt acquired the Mustang Competition this time around.
A closer inspection of the Smells Like Teen Spirit video shows what appears to be the curved profile of the Mustang’s original bridge, as well as what looks like a matching single-coil bridge pickup still in place.
Part of Kurt’s appeal to small-scale and student Fender models, such as the Mustang, was its availability combined with low selling prices. This was long before the current boom of vintage guitars, and it’s vital not to forget that when Kurt saw the racing Mustang, he was in his early 20s.
It’s old enough to buy second-hand, but not necessarily desirable in the landscape of Super Strats, jaw-dropping angular guitars, or early-era Stratocasters and Les Pauls loaded with vintage rock sounds, all of which were in favor. In the moment.
It would be to say that the racing Mustang is rare, but those aren’t guitars you see every day, and besides, Kurt’s guitar was a factory-made left-handed version.
Aside from the unique finish, rosewood board and matching headstock, when Kurt bought the guitar, it was pretty much in its original condition.
A closer inspection of the Smells Like Teen Spirit video shows what appears to be the curved profile of the original Mustang bridge, as well as what looks like a matching single-coil bridge pickup still in place.
Julien’s Auctions claims that Kurt’s guitar technician, Earnie Bailey, purchased the bridge pickup in early 1992 and traded it in for a black Seymour Duncan SHR-1 Hot Rails single-coil humbucker.
The Competition Mustang is obviously (at least at one point) one of Kurt’s favorite guitars. Maybe it’s the mix of a 24-inch-long scale and eye-catching looks, or maybe it’s one of their first “real” guitars after years of betting on a reasonable left. -Electric guitars for right-handed, piecemeal or inverted guitars.
But he chose to play guitar for the band’s first video on a major label, while deliberately wearing a T-shirt that vaguely reflected the guitar’s color palette with racing stripes, as well as for some of the band’s records. at the Beehive record store in Seattle.
It’s unclear to what extent their acquisition of the Competition Mustang and Jaguar 65 overlap, but they do overlap. What is known is that the band’s date at the Trees Club in Texas, on October 19, 1991, was eventful and featured both guitars.
Handycam’s footage of the concert makes it a little awkward to watch, as Kurt, who is filming in the Jaguar, struggles with sound issues throughout the process. After betting on Drain You, he went on to Mustang for School, Floyd The Barber, Smells Like. Teen spirit, about a girl and Polly.
The final chord has stopped resonating slightly by the time Kurt lifts the guitar off his shoulders, and with frustration at its peak, he begins to pound the mixer and case with the butt of the Mustang, Dave Grohl accentuating each of the hits with a crash cymbal. This is where maximum visual damage is kept to the frame of the Competition Mustang, a guitar Kurt is said to have loved with silk gloves.
The Trees Club concert was the same date that Cobain visibly took offense at one of the club’s bouncers as he ventured through the crowd via a level jump, pushing his head with the Jaguar’s body.
When it’s over, the neck hangs about forty-five degrees from the body, and the festival’s Mustang takes a final blow when it’s thrown to the level floor. In an almost symbolic passing of the torch, Cobain re-entered the Jaguar, and according to Livenirvana’s fair resource, the Mustang didn’t reappear on the level until about a year later.
But the evening isn’t over yet, and the Trees Club concert on the same day Cobain visibly took offense at one of the club’s bouncers as he ventured through the crowd via a level jump, shoving him in the head. of the Jaguar.
As mentioned above, the Mustang still had its original bridge and vibrato when it came into Kurt’s hands, however, Earnie Bailey replaced the bridge with a Stewart MacDonald, and then a Gotoh Tune-O-Matic (apparently Kurt’s favorite) in the works. This exchange also saw the advent of what would be a key amendment that Earnie would make to the bridges of Kurt’s Mustang.
“I rebuilt the bridge segment in a way that would be repeated in their In Utero era Sonic Blue Mustangs,” Earnie tells Julien’s. It was about replacing the [original Mustang] bridge with a Tune-O-Matic taste bridge and flipping the tailpiece bar backwards. From there, several of his were added to the posts that hooked the tailpiece to allow it to be fastened in opposition to the plate. rest on.
“This replacement solved several problems. This disabled the tremolo formula and, in doing so, increased the stability of the tuning. The tailpiece reversal allowed us to jump the guitar in a much easier process, stabilizing the tuning while converting the angle at which the string is hooked to the bridge, which would cause the string to break.
“By tightening the tailpiece opposite the plate, the resonance of the strings is redirected from the tremolo spring absorption to the body. “
Kurt’s festival Mustang made a few sorties after his encounter with the soundboard in Dallas. But while there are very few photos of the band at the In Utero recording sessions, sound engineer Steve Albini recalls that Kurt used the Mustang in conjunction with his Jaguar 65. a Univox Hi-Flyer, a traditional Jaguar/Mustang (which is probably a Jag-Stang, but probably Kurt’s traditional Ferrington guitar) and Albini’s Veleno at the sessions.
Earnie Bailey also showed Julien that the Competition Mustang was one of the guitars he had ready for the In Utero sessions. Since Kurt’s death, the Mustang festival has been on public display several times: between 2010 and April 2022, it was on display at the Museum. of Popular Culture (MoPop) in Seattle and some time before its auction, it moved to the Hard Rock Cafe in London between April 28 and May 3, 2022.
There were 4 more left at the time of Kurt’s death. They were sold in Japanese music stores like regular guitars without knowing they were made for Kurt.
In 1993, while Nirvana was preparing for the In Utero tour, Cobain placed an order with Fender for 10 guitars. At the time, Fender’s American Custom Shop had just begun operations, but it was not yet in a position to manufacture left-handed necks. .
The work of building the guitars was then entrusted to Scott Zimmerman, a longtime painter and prime contractor for Fujigen, the company that made Japanese Fender guitars. Zimmerman has been active online in an attempt to clear up some of the confusion surrounding Kurt’s In Utero. -it was Mustangs, and the most sensible thing about that, it provided Julien’s Auctions with a letter of provenance when one of the Sonic Blue Mustangs (see below) was sold at auction. 2019.
“In 1993, through a friend who had relationships with Fender Guitar artists, I contacted him to build a left-handed Fender Mustang for Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. . . ,” the letter begins.
“Fujigen agreed to let me build the guitar, but they asked me to order more than one guitar. Ten guitars were ordered and the idea was to ship two at a time over a period of several months. The guitars were original Mustangs from 1969, Fiesta Red and Blue.
“In June 1993 Kurt was sent a blue guitar and a Fiesta Red; two blues were sent in October 1993 and two Fiesta Red in February 1994. There were 4 more left at the time of Kurt’s death. They were sold in Japanese music stores as regular guitars without knowing that they were made for Kurt.
“His guitar [up for auction] was shipped on 10/22/93 and is rare, with the little frame outline sticker on the headstock. Only the two sent on 22/10/93 had this. . . “
These guitars have become, in many ways, as iconic as their Competition Mustang, their replaced Jaguar, and their Vandalism Strat due to their extensive use in the band’s last year.
Now, Zimmerman’s confirmation notes that six Mustangs were sent to Kurt before he died, as well as the two Jag-Stang he built the holsters for and that Fender’s Larry Brooks has completed.
The last two guitars were Fiesta Red, meaning that until two months before his death, Kurt had only won one Fiesta Red Mustang. Since Nirvana was still traveling those months, it’s unlikely that any of those guitars were put into circulation, and their whereabouts have supposedly been forgotten.
It is conceivable that they remained on Cobain’s property or, as we shall see, that they were part of several of the guitars that Kurt gifted through Courtney Love to his enthusiasts and friends. Finally, as Zimmerman states, the guitars were originally built as originals. reissues of the 1969 Mustangs, suggesting that the neck coils installed on the Mustangs were also original Fender pickups.
These guitars have become, in many ways, as iconic as their Competition Mustang, modified Jaguar, and Vandalism Strat due to their extensive use in the band’s last year. The triumphant MTV Live and Loud concert, where Kurt used his Mustang for almost every single song, except for Blew, and the closest secret/Nevermind track, Endless Nameless (where he switched to a Stratocaster).
It also gave rise to a not unusual misconception: that Kurt owned and played with a white Mustang. Once back, level lighting has a role to play here, as the Sonic Blue under bright, cool lights looks white in some photos.
All 4 guitars were eventually routed to bridge humbuckers, and Earnie Bailey implemented the same Tune-O-Matic bridge switch and modifications as the competition Mustang. Mustangs also had their slide switches cut off so they wouldn’t be accidentally bumped when playing.
Collectively, the 3 Sonic Blue Mustangs are now known as Sky-Stangs (a name given to the guitars through Kurt and Earnie Bailey), with 3 guitars almost identical, but not the same.
Each of the guitars was given nicknames, two of which can be seen in Fender’s behind-the-scenes video above. Fender’s Justin Norvell and Justin Perez had access to several Cobain guitars, the progression of the Fender Kurt Cobain Mustang (which included the H/S configuration of the In Utero guitars, but with the option of Competition, Fiesta Red, or Sonic Blue finishes).
The Fiesta Red Mustang was nicknamed Oranj-Stang, while Blue Mustang is written on tape recorded on one of the cases. Collectively, the 3 Sonic Blue Mustangs are now known as Sky-Stangs (a call given to guitars through Kurt and Earnie Bailey). , with 3 almost identical, but not identical guitars.
In addition to being immediately recognizable as a Cobain guitar, the Sky-Stang also set the trend for DIY mods among Cobain fans. Compared to the Jaguar, with its plethora of features, Sky-Stang modifications are arguably less difficult to replicate, and the second-hand costs of the now-discontinued KC Mustang may be out of reach.
The Fiesta Red Mustang is the first from Japanese Fender Scott Zimmerman to be broadcast live. Chances are you’ve noticed photos from his live debut at the pre-Pat Smear Roseland Ballroom concert in July 1993, where Kurt wore his red-and-black-striped “Dennis. “”The Menace” from Sliver’s video, suggesting once again that perhaps Kurt was thinking a little more about his symbol on the level of what he would have liked to let on.
The Oranj-Stang was only a few weeks old when it made its debut, and that’s why the images and photographs show it in as close to its original state as possible. The Fiesta Red end comes with a red tortoiseshell scratch plate and, as with the other Mustangs, a rosewood fingerboard.
According to Zimmerman’s confirmation, the tuner only features the sticker with the Fender logo, however, at the time of Roseland’s date, it’s imaginable to guess that Kurt had what appears to be a Seymour Duncan JB Jr. , a single-coil humbucker installed in the bridge. position.
A few months later, Kurt began incorporating the other Zimmerman Mustangs into Nirvana’s live sets, along with his Jag-Stang. In late 1993, the guitar’s strumming plate was replaced with a white Pearloid plate and the bridge humbucker was replaced with a full one. Large size black humbucker (probably a Seymour Duncan JB in line with the other guitars).
As evidenced in Fender’s behind-the-scenes video, an Oranj-Stang remained on Cobain’s property, however, a new gain through MusicRadar opens up new questions about the history of the Oranj-Stang guitars that Cobain used on the same level as Nirvana and where at least one of them is now.
In 2023, MusicRadar contacted through the winner of an auction (who wishes to remain anonymous) that took place ten years ago for a guitar neck signed by Kurt Cobain.
“The tale that the guitar neck gave to a fan through Kurt Cobain’s guitar technician on December 30, 1993 after a Nirvana concert at the Great Western Forum Club in Inglewood, California,” we were told.
“The fretboard was accompanied by a photo of Kurt doing a song on the guitar and some fan club and team badges that night. Prior to the acquisition, I won a photo of the back of the mast and matched some markings from Kurt’s photo with markings on the back of his neck. There were several very good coincidences. Everything seemed smart, so I bought it.
When the customer won the necklace, things changed.
“Then I started researching the show where the guitar had been damaged, so maybe I can create a great show of memories with it,” they told MusicRadar. “Fortunately, the entire December 30 [1993] concert at the Great Western Forum was available on YouTube [see the video above where Cobain throws his guitar in the air at the end of the song Blew]. I discovered the show where Kurt destroys. “
So, which collar did they auction off?
“The neck also featured Japanese lettering and Scott Zimmerman’s name emblazoned underneath the plating. So I tapped it to see if it could provide us with more data on it,” the customer explained. He answered:
“From 1980 to the end of 1984, I was the only master builder of prototype guitars and artists at Ffinisher USA. In 1990, I started working for Fujigen’s factory here in Matsumoto, Japan, along with manufacturing Ffinisher Ibanez and other brands. . Because the American Ffinisher Custom Shop wasn’t operational enough to handle the job, Ffinisher USA asked Fujigen if he could make them a traditional left-handed Ffinisher Mustang for Kurt Cobain. Fujigen’s president agreed, but insisted it would require more than one guitar.
The shots you sent are at most probably one of the guitars sent to Kurt, according to the red mark on the heel it’s one of the red Fiesta models.
“Fender USA talked to Kurt and agreed to let me make him 10 traditional guitars, five Sonic Blues guitars and five Fiesta Reds. I made the ten masts and bodies, finished them and sent them out two by two. He had sent a total of six guitars up to the time Kurt died. All four were purchased through Japanese distributor Fender and introduced to the Japanese market as Left Mustangs.
“The shots you sent are at most probably one of the guitars sent to Kurt, according to the red mark on the heel it’s one of the red Fiesta models. There’s no doubt about it, with my call stamp on the heel below the end and My personal call written in Japanese designating which logo to move and which end to spray on the neck for the painting service, will continue. ‘
Then it’s a Mustang mast from a Fiesta Red model. But it’s still unclear how and when it separated from the body. Earnie Bailey, Cobain’s regular guitar technician, wasn’t with the band the night the neck was allegedly given to a fan (Dec. 30, 1993), so he can’t shed light on that aspect of things, according to the buyer.
In the meantime, Zimmerman took the time to send a follow-up email in which he introduced the collar’s new owner to the dates Cobain’s traditional Mustangs had been shipped to him:
• A Mustang Sonic Blue and a Fiesta Red Mustang shipped on 6/28/1993.
• Two Sonic Blue Mustangs shipped on 02/10/1993.
• Two Mustang Fiesta ships on 04/02/1994.
From those dates, we can see that only one Fiesta Red “Oranj-Stang” guitar could have been owned by Cobain at the time the neck was supposedly signed through Cobain. Is it the guitar that the neck comes from?Was even the Dec. 30 Inglewood exhibit destroyed if there is no evidence that it happened on stage?
The customer also noted that on February 4, Nirvana presented Drain You in Paris, France, for the French TV show Nowhere Else. The apparition is memorable for several reasons; the band wears shirts, ties and vests and Cobain’s guitar was cut off in the middle of the song and thrown to the ground. The guitar; Was it one of the first and third Fiesta Red Mustangs that, according to Zimmerman’s records, were shipped (does that mean received?) on that date?
There are still many questions that we will be able to answer at some point. If you have any new data that might shed light on the damaged Oranj-Shang, please let us know!
Of the 3 Sky-Stangs, Kurt’s Sky-Stang I is the Mustang In Utero with the softest, most mottled spots.
Thanks to Nirvana’s MTV Live and Loud feature, where the guitar appeared almost exclusively, many images from the In Utero era show Kurt using this guitar, but he also used it more than the other two blue Sky-Stangs.
Its structure is similar to the others: rosewood fingerboard, Sonic Blue finish, red tortoiseshell scratchplate, however, as Zimmerman mentions in his online posts, this is one of the guitars that did not have the “Offset Contour Body” sticker on the headstock.
The most defining feature, however, is that the Sky-Stang I featured a white humbucker in the bridge position than the black Seymour Duncan JBs of the other Sky-Stangs.
The Sky-Stang I may be the quintessential Cobain Mustang, although the official Fender Kurt Cobain Mustang, as well as many DIY replicas, come with the black humbucker on the bridge.
Given that Kurt had JBs installed on the other guitar, and what appears to be a JB Junior on the Fiesta Red Oranj-Stang, it’s moderate to assume that this Sky-Stang also included a JB.
Kurt’s other favorite bridge humbuckers included a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails and the DiMarzio Super Distortion installed on the Jaguar. However, in photographs taken on Nirvana’s Live and Loud set where the humbucker bridge is visible, the polar pieces do not appear to have a “recessed”. hollow” as a Super Distortion does.
The Sky-Stang I may be the quintessential Cobain Mustang, though the official Fender Kurt Cobain Mustang (as well as many DIY replicas) comes with the black humbucker on the bridge. This guitar remained in Kurt’s live arsenal until Nirvana’s last concert at Munich’s Terminal One.
It has spent years on display at Seattle’s MoPOP Museum as part of the exhibition Nirvana: Bringing Punk to the Masses along with a treasure trove of Kurt and Nirvana tools and memorabilia. Then, in October 2023, its owner revealed; He and Cobain’s half-brother, Chad Cobain, auctioned it off, with a portion of the proceeds going to Kicking The Stigma, the Indianapolis Colts and the Irsay family’s intellectual fitness awareness initiative.
With an estimated price tag between $1 million and $2 million, we expected it to charge a lot more considering the record $4. 5 million auction value at the Stripe Mustang Competition and the fact that it’s one of Cobain’s favorite and most-used live guitars. But on November 18, 2023, it sold for $1,587,500 through Julien’s Auctions in Nashville. It’s still a bountiful sum, of course!
The winning bidder is not the current owner of the Competition Mustang, Jim Irsay, but the Japanese businessman Mitsuru Sato. But like Irsay, who showed off his standout guitar purchases like the Black Strat on a field trip, it turns out he had no intention of hiding the guitar from himself.
“I need to pass rock on to the next generation in a genuine way,” Sato said. “We would like to use this guitar for the next generation who need to continue their musical careers.
Even if we say it was “the least played”, you’ll have to be under pressure for the Sky-Stang II to have triumphed on stage, contrary to popular belief.
The Sky-Stang II is Kurt’s least used guitar live and has remained in the vault of Cobain’s estate, largely out of the spotlight since Kurt’s death.
But even if we say it was the “least played”, it should be noted that the Sky-Stang II did indeed triumph on stage, contrary to popular belief.
Nirvana’s exhibition on December 2, 1993 in Tallahassee is a sort of representative display of all of Kurt’s In Utero era Mustangs. He started the performance with the Jagstang, moved on to the Sky-Stang I before breaking a Lithium string and ending the song. with the Jag-Stang.
Then Pennyroyal tea, and Kurt swaps the guitar for a blue Mustang with a black humbucker. Once the level lights replace the song, it becomes clear that the guitar you’re betting on has exclusive Sky-Stang II branding, suggesting that this guitar was taken on a trip as a backup rather than left at home.
What is clear is that two guitars commented on by Scott Zimmerman were produced in the same batch and that it is necessarily the same guitar as the Sky-Stang III.
There’s more documentation on the Sky-Stang II: A giant photo of the guitar appears in the Cobain Unseen ebook, as well as the Fender-produced video, which focuses primarily on the Sky-Stang.
Once again, the scratch plate is an identifier, with an obviously visual yellow/orange dot between the bridge pickup and the guitar controls. Elsewhere, we can see the “Offset Contour Body” sticker on the headstock indicating that it is the counterpart of the Sky. -Stang III, and the video shows the black Seymour Duncan humbucker in detail.
Once the microphone is taken out of the hollow space and turned upside down, the video shows a sticker that says JBJ. Seymour Duncan’s labeling formula at the time included the first letter of the reel’s last name, and here is the extra “J. “for Maricela Juarez, who lately runs Seymour Duncan Custom Shop.
Interestingly, the Kurt’s JB’s steel backplate is only perforated for six threaded polar pieces, while later models have been perforated underneath both sides of the humbucker so that the backplates can be used universally between the bridge and neck pickups, a small detail that may only mean that the truck was produced in the ’80s rather than being a pickup truck with the new logo.
The Sky-Stang III is one of two Sonic Blue Mustangs that are known to have been used to the fullest live through Cobain. It has some identifying features. First, it was supplied with a black Seymour Duncan JB humbucker in the bridge position, fixed via Earnie Bailey, which immediately took it away from the Sky-Stang I.
It then has a yellow/orange visual spot on the red tortoiseshell skid plate, which can be noticed between the pickups, just inside the bridge humbucker. Finally, it includes a “Custom Contour Body” sticker on the headstock, which Zimmerman showed to Julien’s. Auctions are implemented for two of the guitars.
The guitar came out of Cobain’s estate a few months after his death when Courtney Love earned a letter from Bobby Costello, then a teenage fan. Love responded to the fan’s letter with his own handwritten message and gifted him this guitar.
The letter, which circulated online and kept the guitar, reads: “This may surprise you, but your letter touched me a lot and it’s one of his favorite guitars. When they were handed to me the other day, I felt really bad. “Kurt enjoyed more than anything that the children enjoyed his music and I felt it on my shoulder when I read your letter. Kurt is left-handed, so you want to have his guitar professionally turned over or just tuned – smart luck. Courtney. “
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Photos of Bobby Costello with the guitar show the case, obviously marked Sky-Stang III. The guitar remained in Costello’s property for several years, however, in 2012, Costello posted on a Facebook page called Kurt Cobain Guitars, claiming that the guitar had been stolen. his permission and sold his consent.
At the time of its publication, the guitar was manifested in the Museum of Rock.
The Sky-Stang III was then auctioned through Julien’s Auctions in 2019 (origin of Zimmerman’s letter to the auction house), where it sold for a total of $340. 00.
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