Kurt Cobain’s cardigan sold for a record $334,000 last year.
Now the acoustic guitar the punk rocker played for Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged session, just five months before his death, is expected to fetch around $1 million at auction in June.
Julien’s Auctions said on Monday the 1959 Martin D-18E guitar that Cobain played for the 1993 live taping is going up for sale, reported Reuters.
The guitar comes with battered case, whose storage compartment contains a small suede bag where the musician is said to have stashed the heroin he was addicted to in his final years.
The Nirvana front-man recorded the Unplugged session in November 1993. He was found dead, aged 27, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Seattle home in April 1994.
Julien’s Chief Executive Darren Julien said the guitar “has earned its rightful place in history as the instrument played by one of rock’s most influential musicians and icons in one of the greatest and most memorable live performances of all time.”
The album MTV Unplugged in New York, featuring acoustic versions of tracks like About a Girl, Apologies. A cover version of David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World, released after Cobain’s death, topped the Billboard charts and won a Grammy.
