Auction of Mark Knopfler’s guitars brings in more than $10 million
Francesco Prandoni/Getty ImagesDire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler has made a pretty penny cleaning out his guitar closet. The BBC reports that a recent auction of over 120 of the rocker’s guitars and amps brought in over $10 million, with a quarter of that money set to go to charity. Knopfler's 1959 Vintage Gibson Les Paul Standard was sold for the highest bid, at over $880,000, which wound up being a world auction record for that model of guitar. Another big seller was the guitar Knopfler played at Wembley […]