Kurt Cobain rarely ever signed his full name on all that is why a signed home insurance policy provides a very rare, yet macabre auction item.
The people at Goldin Auctions are making the sale of this super-rare document with the full signature of the late Nirvana frontman – Kurt D. Cobain. He mostly signed his name just Kurt. The letter from Chase Bank’s insurance company is 74 days before the guitarist was found dead in his Seattle home.
Yes, the policy was for that house … where Kurt killed himself on April 8, 1994.
Kurt had that house only a few months before his untimely death. As rock historians know, this is where he went shortly after the California rehab flight to start a drug binge that ended with Kurt’s suicide by a 20-gauge rifle.
The auction lot– currently owned by Inscriptions Memorabilia and expected fetch more than $ 100k – also includes original photos of what the house looked like before parts of the house caught fire.
We are told that the memorabilia company has plans to donate a portion of its proceeds to a suicide prevention organization.
Goldin Auctions describes this auction as “insanely rare” … and it comes on the heels of last month’s record setting article.
Kurt set a Guinness World Record for the most expensive guitar sold at auction when his 1959 Martin D-18E fetched a whopping $ 6010,000.
