Noel Gallagher’s Oasis guitar from Morning Glory heads to auction

Noel Gallagher’s Epiphone EJ-200 acoustic, the guitar he used while writing and recording Oasis’s Morning Glory era, carried a $60,000 to $80,000 estimate as it went under the hammer in New York. The signed instrument, serial number S94070027, was listed in Sotheby’s April 2026 Rock & Pop sale, a reminder that Britpop relics with the right paper trail still command serious money.

That appetite is built on more than nostalgia alone. The lot included a letter of authenticity on Oasis and Creation Records letterhead, signed by Noel Gallagher and dated August 3, 1996. For collectors, that kind of documentation turns a working instrument into a verified artifact from one of the defining albums of the 1990s, making provenance part of the value proposition.

Morning Glory, released in June 1995, became the album that pushed Oasis from a Manchester phenomenon to a global one. It sold 350,000 copies in its first week, has sold more than 22 million copies worldwide, spent 10 weeks at No. 1 in the United Kingdom and won the BRIT Award for Best British Album in 1996. The track list, which includes Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, Don’t Look Back in Anger and Some Might Say, has kept the record fixed in popular memory long after the original Britpop boom faded.

Craig Inciardi, Sotheby’s New York-based pop culture specialist, said Gallagher was highly prolific at the time and described the guitar as typical of the kind he plays to this day. Sotheby’s said the instrument had passed from Gallagher to a roadie before reaching the current consignor, a huge Oasis fan. That chain of custody matters in a market where the story attached to an object can be as valuable as the object itself.

The auction came amid renewed attention around Oasis during the band’s 2025 reunion tour, which has revived demand for memorabilia tied to the group’s peak years. In that market, an acoustic guitar used in the writing sessions for Morning Glory is not just a piece of stage equipment. It is a direct link to a commercial high point, a cultural era and a catalog that still draws buyers willing to pay for ownership of the myth.