Irish rocker Rory Gallagher's "lucky charm" Fender guitar could fetch up to $1.3 million at an auction in London this week.

The instrument was one of a number of the Irish musician’s possessions auctioned by the Gallagher estate on Thursday

Musician’s 1961 Fender secured for National Museum of Ireland with support from Live Nation Gaiety Ltd, says Minister for Arts

Made in Fullerton, California, in 1961, and bought by teenage Rory Gallagher from Crowley’s music store in Cork two years later, the famous Fender Stratocaster was sold for a hammer price of £700,000 (€841,

Rory Gallagher’s legendary Fender Stratocaster guitar sold today for just over €1 million but the purchaser is to donate the piece of Irish rock history to the National Museum of Ireland in a deal brokered by the Department for Culture.

Rory Gallagher’s famous guitar coming home to Ireland after auction sale - The guitar belonging to the late musician and songwriter sold for £889,400 (1,068,956 euro) at Bonhams auction house.