The 1954 Les Paul Gibson guitar known as “Black Beauty” has sold at auction for $335,500. Guernsey’s auction house says the six-string instrument with gold-plated hardware set the standard ...

The 1954 Les Paul Gibson guitar known as "Black Beauty" has sold at auction in New York for $335,500 ($419,900 Cdn). Guernsey's auction house says the six-string instrument with gold-plated ...

“I’m pleased you’ve enjoyed the book,” Jimmy Page said. “You know, being a guitar nerd like myself.” It was 2020, and the ...

Guernsey's Auctions President Arlan Ettinger holds the Les Paul guitar known as "Black Beauty", which will go up for auction next month, in New York January 29, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar ...

Les Paul's own Gibson "Black Beauty," the solid-body electric guitar with gold-plated hardware that he helped design and that has been hailed as the most significant guitar ever made, has sold ...

The crusade to find a home for a sacred electric guitar is reverberating like a thundering encore through the music business as innovator Les Paul’s Black Beauty from the ’50s is going up for ...

Behind Page's success was his 1960 Les Paul custom guitar -- known as Black Beauty. The last time Page had it in his hands was at a Met Center concert in April of 1970. "He pulled out this guitar ...

Two historic electric guitar prototypes will go up for auction next month in New York, including the original “Black Beauty” model of Gibson’s Les Paul guitar that became one of the most ...

This is the story of Black Beauty. Not the horse, but a legendary guitar. And the people who possessed it. Or were possessed by it. Black Beauty has been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - One deep-pocketed bidder will get a chance to own a piece of rock and roll history when the iconic Les Paul guitar known as "Black Beauty" goes up for auction in New York next ...