Jeff Beck's stage-used prototype Graffiti Yellow Fender Stratocaster sells at auction for over $94,000

Jeff Beck performs onstage (left), a Graffiti Yellow Strat once owned by Jeff Beck
(Image credit: Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images, Bonham's)

A prototype Graffiti Yellow Fender Stratocaster used extensively onstage by Jeff Beck has sold at auction for £76,600 (~$94,500). 

The electric guitar, which went under the hammer earlier this week (May 24) in a sale facilitated by Bonhams, has a fascinating history, heavily intertwined with Beck's significant role in Fender's revitalization and the development of the company's Strat Plus guitar.

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Jackson Maxwell

Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.