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Sell or Auction Your 1955 Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar for up to Nearly $30,000 or More at Nate D. Sanders Auctions

FREE ESTIMATE. To buy, auction, sell or consign your 1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar that is for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).

Sell Your 1955 Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar

Les Paul was a jazz, country and blues musician who worked with the Gibson Guitar Corporation to produce the Les Paul guitar. Paul designed it as he felt he could enhance the everyday amplified guitar. The Les Paul guitar was the first sold-body guitar and has been revered by rock icons since the 1950s and 1960s. Legends such as Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Jerry Garcia and Jimmy Page have used Les Paul guitars. Musicians Slash, Joe Perry and Jimmy Page have all collaborated up with Gibson to produce their Les Paul signature guitars.

Below is a recent realized price for a 1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:

1955 Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar. Sold for Nearly $30,000.

Nate D. Sanders Auctions has sold the following music memorabilia:

Gibson Les Paul Custom 1977 Guitar, Randy Rhoads Model — In Hardshell Gibson Case

Gibson Les Paul Custom 1977 electric guitar, the Randy Rhoads model in Alpine White, aged to a creamy yellow. With Gibson gold-plated hardware and mother-of-pearl inlay. Guitar is exceedingly well-preserved, only lightly played and housed in its Gibson hardshell case. Made in Nashville, guitar’s serial number is 72627576. Weighs 10 lbs., 5 oz. Near fine condition with no significant flaws. Sold for $3,781.

1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar
Gibson Les Paul Custom 1977 Guitar, Randy Rhoads Model. Click to enlarge.

David Crosby’s Own Gibson ES-335 Guitar — From His Days in “The Byrds”

David Crosby’s personally owned and played Gibson guitar, used by Crosby in “The Byrds,” one of the most influential bands of the 1960’s. Crosby’s role in “The Byrds” from the iconic group’s formation in 1964 until his departure in 1967 garnered him his first of two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Guitar is the widely recognized Gibson ES-335, with a Bigsby Vibrato tailpiece tremolo. Dating to 1958, this model was the first electric guitar to introduce the semi-hollow body design. Neck is one-piece mahogany beneath a rosewood fingerboard with mother of pearl inlays. Measures 16.5″ wide, 20″ long, and 1.75″ deep. Housed in a black hardshell case lined in orange velvet. Scattered nicks and bumping to top of headstock, else near fine. With an LOA from David Crosby. Sold for $25,428.

1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar
David Crosby’s Own Gibson ES-335 Guitar. Click to enlarge.

Consign your 1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar at Nate D. Sanders Auctions. Send a description and images of your 1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar to us at [email protected].

Jon Bon Jovi Stage Played & Signed Acoustic-Electric Guitar

Jon Bon Jovi’s guitar, played onstage by Jon in Dallas on 10 April 2010 during Bon Jovi’s Circle Tour, and signed in gold marker by him. Takamine acoustic-electric guitar is serial #08120413, housed in Takamine hard-shell guitar case. Lot also includes a Bon Jovi backstage pass from their April 10th Dallas performance, as well as a photo of Bon Jovi playing this guitar in Dallas, and a 10” x 8” signed photo. Some light scuffing to body, more so on back, but overall near fine. Accompanied by paperwork from JBJ Soul Foundation. A fantastic rock collectible. Sold for $18,750.

1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar
Jon Bon Jovi Stage Played & Signed Acoustic-Electric Guitar. Click to enlarge.

Eddie Van Halen Personally Designed, Stage Played & Signed Guitar

Eddie Van Halen personally designed (hand-striped) custom guitar, owned and played onstage by Eddie at the 30 January 2008 show in Little Rock, Arkansas. Charvel guitar is signed by Eddie in silver marker, with the Little Rock concert date also written by him as well as ”Van Halen / 2008”. In custom EVH (Eddie Van Halen) Charvel guitar case measuring 41.5” x 15” x 4”, and with COA signed by Eddie Van Halen. Near fine condition. A fantastic rock collectible personally designed, played and signed by one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Sold for $15,000.

1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar
Eddie Van Halen Personally Designed, Stage Played & Signed Guitar. Click on image to enlarge.
COA for Eddie Van Halen Personally Designed, Stage Played & Signed Guitar. Click to enlarge.

Bob Dylan Signed Martin D-15 Acoustic Guitar — Also With Dylan’s RIAA Award for ”Time Out of Mind” — With Roger Epperson COA

Bob Dylan signed Martin acoustic guitar, a D-15 Mahogany Top Dreadnought, with serial number 874444. Guitar is made entirely of mahogany (rather than sapele wood), with East Indian Rosewood on the fingerboard and bridge, prized by guitar connoisseurs on its own, with this one specially signed by legend Bob Dylan. Guitar is near fine in its original Martin hard shell case. Dylan signs the body ”To Tom – / Bob Dylan”, inscribed to Tom Donnarumma, the GM of Columbia Records, whose 22.5” x 17.5” gold RIAA award for Dylan’s ”Time Out of Mind” accompanies the guitar. With Roger Epperson COA. Sold for $6.875.

1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar
Bob Dylan Signed Martin D-15 Acoustic Guitar. Click on image to enlarge.
Roger Epperson COA. Click to enlarge.

FREE ESTIMATE. To buy, auction, sell or consign your 1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar that is for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com). We offer the following services for your 1955 Gibson Les Paul standard electric guitar.

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