B.B. King: One of Blues Legend’s ‘Lucille’ Guitars Headed to Auction Black Gibson ES-345, which company gifted guitarist for his 80th birthday, estimated to bring up to $100,000 in September ...

The headstock has “B.B. King 80” and a crown inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The guitar is estimated to be worth $80,000 to $100,000. The guitar was not the first to bear the name.

Buy B.B.King 'Lucille' Guitar $6,999.00 Gibson calls this a “long-standing icon in the Gibson Memphis lineup,” with “high-end appointments that are fit for a King.” ...

B.B. King, who died Thursday at age 89, named his guitar Lucille because of a woman he never met. In fact, there have been many Lucilles, most famously a series of custom-designed Gibsons but ...

Lucille influenced much of King’s career, from the 1968 album and song he named after the guitar to a 1997 visit to the Vatican when he gave Pope John Paul II one of the instruments as a gift ...

Her name was “Lucille,” and in B.B. King’s hands she gave voice to the “King of the Blues.” Julien’s Auctions announced Tuesday that King’s black Gibson ES-345 prototype guitar is ...

LOS ANGELES — Her name was "Lucille," and in B.B. King's hands she gave voice to the "King of the Blues." Julien's Auctions announced Tuesday that King's black Gibson ES-345 prototype guitar is ...

LOS ANGELES — Her name was "Lucille," and in B.B. King's hands she gave voice to the "King of the Blues." Julien's Auctions announced Tuesday that King's black Gibson ES-345 prototype guitar is ...

LOS ANGELES — Her name was "Lucille," and in B.B. King's hands she gave voice to the "King of the Blues." Julien's Auctions announced Tuesday that King's black Gibson ES-345 prototype guitar is ...

Late blues icon B.B. King’s famous guitar, Lucille, played such an integral role in his storied life that he made music about it, and even named a Times Square water hole in its honor. Four y… ...

Julien's Auctions announced that B.B. King's guitar "Lucille" is among the items from his estate that will go up for bid on Sept. 21.