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Jerry Garcia’s iconic custom-built electric guitar, known universally as “Tiger,” is currently up for auction at Christie’s via The Jim Irsay Collection. Registration and bidding start on Thursday, March 12. 🎸 Crafted by San Francisco luthier Doug Irwin in 1979, Tiger took over 2,000 hours to build. It’s an absolute work of art, featuring a “hippie sandwich” construction of laminated cocobolo, maple, and padauk with brass binding, and of course, the signature mother-of-pearl tiger inlay under the bridge. 🔥 Jerry played this guitar almost exclusively from 1979 to 1989, and poignantly, it was the very last guitar he played publicly with the Grateful Dead at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995. It’s expected to fetch between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. 💰 While that might be slightly out of the weekly budget for most of us, it is incredible just to look at and appreciate the sheer history of the instrument. #gratefuldead #music