Marc Bolan's Jag played by PHIL X!! 1964 Fender Jaguar 01139

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This is Marc Bolan's Sea Foam Green Jaguar. This unbelievable 'Glam Rock' guitar weighs just 8.30 lbs. and has a nut width of 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 24 inches. Offset asymmetrical 14 inch wide solid alder body. One-piece maple neck with a medium profile. Brazilian rosewood 'veneer' fretboard with 22 jumbo frets and clay dot position markers. Headstock with matching "Sea Foam Green" finish and decal with "Fender" logo in gold with black trim, "Jaguar" in black in bold letters, and three patent numbers in black below. With "Offset Contour Body" at the ball end of the headstock. Single "butterfly" string tree with metal spacer. Individual Kluson 'single-line' Deluxe tuners with oval metal buttons and "D-169400 / Patent No." stamped on the underside - except for the 'A' tuner which is blank (but absolutely original) on the underside. Four-bolt neck plate with the serial number "L46649" between the top two screws. The neck is stamped "1 MAR 64 B". Two white oblong Strat-like pickups with notched metal side plates and outputs of 6.92k and 6.31k. Three-layer (white/black/white) plastic pickguard with ten screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) and jack socket on lower metal plate adjoining pickguard on treble side, selector switch and two roller controls (one volume, one tone) on upper metal plate adjoining pickguard on bass side, and three slide switches on metal plate inset into the pickguard on the treble side. Black plastic knobs with eight sides and white markings. The potentiometers are dated "304-6421" (Stackpole, May1964). Jaguar / Jazzmaster floating tremolo and bridge with adjustable mute. Original tremolo arm with black plastic tip. All hardware (except for tremolo arm) gold-plated. This guitar has been expertly refretted with jumbo size frets (either by Marc Bolan or Henri Padovani). On the underside of the neck heel is the Fender factory blind-stamp "2849 / F. GREEN" and under the pickguard (between the two pickup cavities) is another Fender factory blind-stamp "1111 / F GREEN". The neck cavity has the name "Tony" written in black. The sliding 'locking-nut' on the tremolo assembly is missing - so the tremolo system cannot be 'locked' (Bolan probably broke it off - it's a useless part of the assembly anyway). On the back of the guitar there are two areas (measuring approximately 2 x 1 1/2 inches and a smaller area measuring 1 1/2 x 3/4 inches) of considerable belt buckle wear where the paint finish is off. There is also some additional belt buckle wear on the back, a small gouge on the side of the upper horn (measuring approximately 3/8 x 1/8 inch), a few small marks on the edges, and some nice finish checking. Otherwise this guitar is in remarkably fine condition. Only four Foam (or Sea Foam) Green Jaguars from this year are known, and this is the only one known with gold hardware. It was owned by Marc Bolan of T Rex and later by Henri Padovani of The Police. Housed in the original Fender light brown Tolex case with brown leather ends and burnt orange plush lining (9.00). Together with a letter of authenticity from Chris Trigg of Vintage & Rare (London & Bath), who purchased the guitar from Henri Padovani nearly thirty years ago, a letter from Henri Padovani explaining the circumstances in which Bolan gave him the guitar in the mid 1970s. Also included is a copy of the article from Guitarists Magazine (May 1997) "I'll call you Jaguar if I may be so bold" "Guitarist's own Jeepster, Robbie Gladwell takes a closer look at the Jag that was once driven by a tyrannosaurus" and a color photograph of Marc Bolan performing with the guitar.