Pete Townshend-The Who Gibson SG Special Guitar Early 1980s

Pete Townshend/The Who
A late 1967 Gibson SG Special, Serial No.884484, Stamped 2, in cherry red finish, double cutaway mahogany body, mahogany neck, Grover machine heads, 22 fret bound rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, two P90 pickups, four rotary controls, selector switch, metal bridge, black pickguard bound in white, tailpiece removed; and an original black hardshell Gibson contour case with scarlet plush lining -- owned and used by Pete Townshend in circa early 1970s - early 1980s; accompanied by a signed letter from Pete Townshend concerning the provenance in which he states that this ...Gibson SG Special guitar...must be one of the few passing through my hands, which has survived without getting smashed..., although Townshend cannot recall when he first got this guitar, he states that before he gave it away to former Who crew member Tony Haslam in the early 1980s ...I used it at home as my principle guitar of this type for use on my demo recordings... and that he regards this instrument ...as one of my 'special' guitars along with a single Les Paul Deluxe modified for stage use, and a 1952 Telecaster... (3)