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Lightfoot's 'Sundown' guitar fetches big bucks at auction, will remain in Canada

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Gordon Lightfoot’s 1967 Gibson B45-12 Sunburst has sold for $ 350,000 US following an estate auction by Heritage Auctions .

The 1967 Gibson was also an onstage favourite for Lightfoot , a native of Orillia , Ont ., and upon which he composed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ and If You Could Read My Mind ,’ made him a top 70s artist.

A small, beat-up wooden desk upon which Lightfoot did his best work no matter where he found himself was also popular with bidders.

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