Les Paul electric guitar with case owned by Slash

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

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.

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