The guitar was stolen during the Exile on Main St. sessions and was recently discovered in a collection acquired by The Met.

It's a 1959 Gibson Les Paul with a sunburst finish. ... In February, a Les Paul prototype known as "Black Beauty" was sold for $335,000 at auction in New York City.

Songbirds announces it will be the temporary home for Paul Kossoff's 1959 Gibson Les Paul Sunburst, on loan from Kris Blakely. Officials said this iconic piece of rock and roll history is the ...

Since then, Chaquico had never heard anything more about the Sunburst or the other treasured guitar he lost that day, a 1957 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top (Serial No. 78793).