- Price: $1,500,000
- Year: 1958
- Ownership: Owned by the Seattle-based Experience Music Project
- Features: One of two pre-production Explorer models produced, this guitar is made of solid mahogany with a mahogany neck. The fingerboard is rosewood and the guitar features gold-plated hardware.
Fender "Reach Out" Telecaster Prototype
- Price: $1,200,000
- Year: 1969
- Ownership: Owned by the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, Washington
- Features: One of two prototypes of the Fender Reach Out Telecaster, this guitar features a unique body shape, with a large rectangular center section and two smaller, pointed wings on either side. The guitar also features a Stratocaster-style headstock and a Floyd Rose tremolo bridge.
Gibson Flying V Prototype
- Price: $1,100,000
- Year: 1958
- Ownership: Owned by the Gibson Guitar Corporation
- Features: One of three prototypes of the Gibson Flying V, this guitar is made of solid mahogany with a mahogany neck. The fingerboard is rosewood and the guitar features gold-plated hardware.
Zemaitis Metal Front Award Guitar
- Price: $1,000,000
- Year: 1975
- Ownership: Owned by Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett
- Features: This one of two guitars built to resemble a metal trophy; the other was purchased by Steve Miller. The guitar features an aluminum front and metal hardware, including the guitar's neck, bridge, and tuning pegs.
"Black Strat" David Gilmour Signature Fender Stratocaster
- Price: $920,000
- Year: 1969
- Ownership: Owned by Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour
- Features: This guitar is a custom-made Stratocaster that was originally purchased by Gilmour in 1970. The guitar features a black finish with white pinstripes, a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard, and a Floyd Rose tremolo bridge.