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“Boy’s guitar, as new, £4” reads an ad curiously placed in the middle of ad for nurses in the Bournemouth Daily Echo in December 1958.
Twelve-year-old Robert Fripp of Wimborne Minster is selling his very first guitar, an Egmond Frères, a Christmas gift from the previous year for what, adjusted for inflation, would now be about £83. The ad was later run in the correct section; there is also an ad from Fripp’s guitar teacher Don Strike with stringed instruments for sale.
A 1957 Christmas ad promoting musical instruments for sale at Minns of Bournemouth, where the guitar was originally purchased.