Kurt Cobain's Smashed Guitar Sells for Nearly $600K at Auction, Far Exceeding Estimate

Kurt Cobain's smashed Fender Stratocaster guitar sold at auction for $595,900, more than 10 times its original estimate.
The guitar was smashed while Nirvana was making their seminal Nevermind album in the early 1990s and features the signatures of Nirvana’s three members.
Cobain gave the guitar to the late Screaming Trees lead singer Mark Lanegan during Nirvana’s Nevermind tour in 1992.
Nirvana’s handwritten set list from the band’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” debut performance in 1991 also sold at the same auction Saturday for $50,800, twelve times its original estimate.
The auction also included guitars played by Bono and Eddie Van Halen, and Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” World Tour jacket.