Noel Gallagher guitar sells for £12,000 at auction

A guitar which originally belonged to Noel Gallagher has been sold for £12,000 at auction.

The limited edition Epiphone instrument in Manchester City blue was one of a number of items put up for sale by the son of Huw Richards, a former front-of-house sound engineer with the band.

Another of the items in his collection, a Kangol rain jacket produced for the band's touring personnel, sold for £2,000.

But a set of unheard Oasis recordings valued at between £1.2m and £1.6m were pulled from the auction last week , after the band filed an injunction.

That collection of recordings, known as The Desk Tapes, includes recordings of 63 live shows, soundchecks and more than 100 hours of rehearsals from the band's rise and rise in the 1990s.

Littleton Auctions in Worcestershire, which handled the auction, said it had agreed to postpone the sale until the legal dispute had been resolved.

The Epiphone guitar was made in 1997 and the auctioneer said it is believed to be one of five identical guitars gifted to Noel Gallagher by the manufacturer.

It was later given to Richards, Littleton Auctions said.

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