Accompanied by a Letter of Provenance from the original owner, who got it from Clapton, including a 1980s photo of Clapton with a very similar guitar. The letter in part: "I was always fond of Eric Clapton as a solo artist but also his work with Cream, Yardbirds and Derek & the dominos. Eric is very friendly and he was kind to everyone in the crew. The Reptile tour was to be my last as I got another job in 2001. I asked Eric’s assistant if I could buy one of the cheaper guitars of Eric’s collection (to clarify: he had many very high end guitars which was out of my spending limit…). After some days, I was told that Eric did not want to sell any guitars, but he wanted to gift me a guitar instead! I know that Eric gets guitars sent to him from pretty much all guitar brands, but still… It is very generous of him to just give away a guitar like that. To my surprise, it was a gorgeous candy apple Strat! The guitar is American made and the serial is G029766. It was made in the early 80’s. Below is a photo of Eric with a red Strat. The guitar case was added later.”