Jerry Garcia 'Wolf' Guitar
- Maker
- Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) / Doug Irwin
- Year
- 1973
- Rank
- 48 of 100
Jerry Garcia 'Wolf' Guitar
Jerry Garcia 'Wolf' Guitar by Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) / Doug Irwin (1973) is ranked 48 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $1,900,000 on 31 May 2017. One of the two most famous Grateful Dead guitars; a landmark charity result.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
One of the two most famous Grateful Dead guitars; a landmark charity result.
Garcia's custom Doug Irwin 'Wolf' guitar; charity sale benefiting the Southern Poverty Law Center
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $1,900,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 31 May 2017
Guernsey's, Brooklyn Bowl NYC. $1.9M (incl. matched charity component).
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08