A smashed guitar from the late rocker Kurt Cobain has been sold to an unidentified private collector for $100,000, according to an Associated Press report, which also noted that it was the second highest price that a piece of Cobain memorabilia had fetched.

"It's a really cool-looking guitar because it's smashed and held together with duct tape and Kurt Cobain wrote on it,” the report quoted Jacob McMurray, senior curator at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where the instrument was housed for awhile, as saying.

The seller was punk rocker Sluggo of The Grannies and Hullabaloo, who got the Fender guitar when Cobain stayed at his New Jersey apartment during a Nirvana tour. He told the AP he hoped the buyer would allow the instrument to return to Seattle for a Cobain exhibit he is preparing for 2010.

According to the report, the highest price paid for a piece of Cobain memorabilia was $131,000 at a 2006 auction for his Mosrite Gospel Mark IV guitar.

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