CHARVEL GUITARS, GLENDORA, 1981, A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR

CHARVEL GUITARS, GLENDORA, 1981
A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR
The headstock with applied Charvel logo, with hardshell case bearing a label inscribed CHARVEL STRATOCASTER BROWN BURST-FLAME EMG ROSEWOOD #N.S.N; accompanied by a promotional flyer for the No.1 Music Centre, Hamburg, inscribed sold: David Gilmour 8-84, a delivery note from No.1 Music Centre, Hamburg to Charvel Manufacturing, dated 22nd November 1984, returning the guitar for guarantee repair, and two photographs of David Gilmour playing this guitar, the first a vintage gelatin silver print by Jill Furmanovsky, London, circa 1986, the second a candid color snapshot, 2001 [not illustrated]
Length of back 15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm.)

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