Nearly five years after his death, one of Eddie Van Halen ’s most recognizable guitars will be auctioned off for the first time this fall.

As part of a rock collectibles sales by the auction house Sotheby’s, the public will be able to bid on a 1982 Kramer guitar that he played onstage with the rock band Van Halen in 1982 and 1983; it was also featured in a much-seen TV ad for the guitar company. With its black and white spray-panted stripes, the guitar resembles Van Halen’s famous “Frankenstein” from 1975 and is on that same design.

A few years after those Van Halen shows, according to Sotheby’s, Van Halen gifted the instrument to his guitar tech, Robin “Rudy” Leiren. (The guitar sports an inscription to Leiren.) Leirin ultimately sold it to Mötley Crüe’s Mick Mars, who used it on th

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