Auctioneers have sold a guitar formerly owned by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page for £100,000.
New Musical Express (NME) magazine gave away the instrument in a competition in 1974 after Page posed with it on the cover wearing cricket whites.
Musician Phil O’Donoghue, from Chessington, later purchased the guitar from the competition winner, and his family were selling it after he died earlier in 2025.
Auctioneer Luke Hobbs from Gardiner Houlgate said the sale “exceeded all expectations”.
The Wiltshire auctioneers previously predicted the 1957 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 electric guitar would fetch up to £50,000.
The guitar was sold with a photo of Page, who grew up in Surrey, giving the guitar away to competition winner Charles Reid, from London.
Page told NME at the time that he bought the guitar in Nashville, USA, for £200 in 1972.
Mr Hobbs said: “Of all the artist-associated instruments I’ve been involved with this has been my favourite journey, both for the remarkable story behind it and the rarity of the artist.”