A guitar played by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's iconic MTV Unplugged performance in November 1993 has sold for a record $6.01m at an auction in New York, having been expected to fetch between $1m-$2m.
Auction house Julien's says the previous record was the $3.95m paid for a Stratocaster owned by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.
The Saturday sale of Cobain's 1959 Martin D-18E also included the guitar case with some personal items belonging to the late Nirvana frontman inside.
US entertainment trade website Deadline reports that other Nirvana-related items sold on Saturday included a setlist from the Unplugged show and typed lyrics to David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World, which Nirvana performed during their set.
Cobain took his own life less than five months after the concert. Nirvana's Unplugged performance was posthumously released as a Grammy-winning live album in 1994, and as a DVD in 2007.
