This is a solid-body electric guitar.

The pickguard engraved DAN ARMSTRONG - AMPEG, the body bearing the serial number A2257D, the transparent body of Lucite.

 

Mark Knopfler used this guitar, in open tuning, on the 1990 Notting Hillbillies album Missing...Presumed having a good time, which Q magazine called 'an album of vintage acoustic blues by artists such as Lonnie Donegan, The Delmore Brothers, Jesse Fuller and Charlie Rich.'

 

See more pictures of this guitar here, here and here.

 

This guitar was auctioned at Christie's in London on 31st January 2024. It was sold for 37.800 Pounds.

This is a solid-body electric bass guitar.

The pickguard engraved DAN ARMSTRONG AMPEG and the neck foot ink stamped 9539A. The transparent body is of Lucite.

This lucite bass guitar was purchased as a pair to the Dan Armstrong-Ampeg (A2257D) from Lark Street Music, New Jersey, in January 2004.

The guitar was photographed in the studio with bassist Glenn Worf during recording sessions for Mark Knopfler’s 2007 studio album Kill to get crimson, as seen in keyboard player Guy Fletcher’s online studio diaries.

See more pictures of this guitar here and here.

 

This bass guitar was auctioned at Christie's in London on 31st January 2024. It was sold for 23.940 Pounds.