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Two classic guitars played by rock star Eric Clapton have been sold by a London auctioneer for a total of nearly œ60,000.

A 1958 Gibson guitar, bought by Clapton in 1968, was snapped up at the Christie's sale by an American collector for œ47,000.

The money raised from the sale of the guitar will go to the Isabel Hospice charity, in memory of blues guitarist Paul Kossoff.

A second guitar owned by the blues guitarist, a 1952 Gibson Le Paul which he was lent for a show 1997 London concert, sold for œ12,925.

But the sales fell short of the world record price of œ313,000 his guitar Brownie fetched last year. Lyrics for the song Absolutely Sweet Marie, written by Bob Dylan in 1966, failed to sell. Also for sale were Noel Gallagher's Epiphone electric guitar (œ2,500 to œ3,500)

John Entwistle's 1979 Wal Pro custom bass guitar (œ1,000 to œ1,500)

Takamine acoustic guitar signed by Pete Townsend (œ6,000)

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