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Bill Wyman breaks records

Julien’s recently hosted the massive Property From Bill Wyman And His Rolling Stones Archive auction, setting a new world record for the most expensive bass guitar and amp sold at auction. That bass was a 1969 Fender Mustang with a Competition Orange finish, used by Wyman on the Stones’ concerts and recordings in 1969 and 1970 and exhibited at the O2 Arena Rock Exhibition in 2010. It sold for $384,000. The record was previously held by Julien’s Auctions’ 2013 sale of a left-handed Hofner presented to Paul McCartney in 1964, which sold for $204,800. Wyman’s 1962 Vox AC30 Normal amp sold for $106,250, setting a new record for the most expensive amplifier sold at auction months earlier.

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