The guitar may very well be legit. I found this blog online: Scroll down the page to see possibly the same guitar and owner info:
http://uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/2014/0 ... ndrix.htmlThe site states that he used it as a practice guitar in hotel rooms, though never on stage because he preferred to play righty flipped guitars, since he preferred having the control knobs and tremolo on top. The only photo I've ever seen of Hendrix actually playing a lefty guitar was this one, a Black Widow:
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http://blackwidow.vintageusaguitars.com ... ack-widow/Still, $450,000 for this guitar is ambitious to say the least.