Former Colts Owner Jim Irsay’s Memorabilia Collection is Up for Auction
His guitar collection alone is valued at over One BILLION Dollars
This collection is largely known for its vast selection of musical instruments - often dubbed "The Greatest Guitar Collection on Earth” , which is estimated to be worth over $1 billion and includes instruments previously owned by
-Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, and David Gilmour.
Items also in the collection include:
A 1963 Gretsch 6120 Country Gentleman, used by John Lennon on The Beatles' 1966 single "Paperback Writer"
Lennon's 1964 Rickenbacker Rose Morris Model 1996, used during The Beatles' 1964 Christmas tour.
Ringo Starr's first Ludwig drum kit used with The Beatles while touring Europe in 1963
And Ringo’s drum kit he played on the Ed Sullivan show
Muhammad Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle" championship belt
-rocking chair used by President John F. Kennedy at the white house
- include Jackie Robinson's baseball bat from the 1953 season
-Movie Memorabilia
A Wilson volleyball, used during the filming of Cast Away (2000)
-a "golden ticket" from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
-Al Pacino's shooting script used during production of Scarface (1983)
-Sylvester Stallone's early working script notebook for the film Rocky (1976
-Jack Kerouac's original manuscript of "On the Road
-Hunter S Thompson's Chevrolet,
-The saddle used for Secretariat's Triple Crown run
-documents handwritten by George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson,
-The original manuscript of the Alcoholics Anonymous 'Big Book'.
-And a more-than-200-year-old copy of the Declaration of Independence