Cobain’s sweater sells for $14.8K

“According to an auction service known as Julien’s Live”, which bills itself as “The Auction House to the Stars”, one of the items up for bid was the famous green sweater that Kurt Cobain wore during the Unplugged performance.

The iconic green cardigan Kurt Cobain wore during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged set in 1993 has gone up for auction, with its burn hole, missing button and its slight discoloration leading it to sell for a massive USD$140,800 (AUD$200,000).

It ended up selling for $2.4m.

Initially, Julien’s Live opened the bidding at $20,000 and estimated that the piece of clothing would sell for somewhere between $40,000 and $60,000.

Later this month a “new” Cobain album “Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings” will be released.

Compared to the other items sold at the auction, Cobain’s sweater was quite a bargain.

John Lennon’s acoustic guitar fetched more than $2.4m (€2.2m) while a drum head used by Ringo Starr on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, meanwhile, earned a whopping $2,050,000.

In addition to the cardigan, Julien’s Live also sold additional Nirvana merchandise as part of the auction including gold and platinum record plaques, but the garment was the big ticket item for Nirvana fans.