Les Paul electric guitar with case owned by Slash: Museum Object and Cultural History
Les Paul electric guitar with case owned by Slash: Date: 2007. Manufactured by: Epiphone Guitar Corp., American, founded 1873. Owned by: Slash, British American, born 1965.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a Les Paul Epiphone electric guitar (.1) and case (.2) owned by Slash of Guns N’ Roses. The guitar has a wood body finished in natural wood tones, fading to black around the edges of the body, with gold colored plastic control knobs. The neck is natural wood color with pearl trapezoid-shaped inlays. The headstock is black with pale green tuning keys and pale green text in the center of the headstock that reads “ Les Paul / Model.” At the base of the head stock is a small black plaque with gold text that reads “SLASH.” The back of the guitar is dark wood. AT the top of the headstock is a serial number “EE070500215.” The black guitar case (.2) is an Epiphone case in the shape of a guitar with gold text on the lid that reads "Epiphone." Inside is grey soft material and a shape molded to the instrument.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 2007
- Manufactured by: Epiphone Guitar Corp., American, founded 1873
- Owned by: Slash, British American, born 1965
- Type: cases (containers)
- Type: electric guitars
- Medium: wood with metal and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D (.1: guitar): 40 3/16 × 13 × 1 7/8 in. (102 × 33 × 4.7 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W x D (.2: case): 41 3/4 × 15 3/16 × 4 15/16 in. (106 × 38.5 × 12.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Rock and roll (Music)
- Object number: 2021.102.7.1-.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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