Johnny Marr has sold many of the guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man | Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr plans to sell about 80 of his guitars, including the Rickenbacker heard on This Beautiful Man.

Marr has teamed up with Christie’s for the sale, which will take place on September 17 in London, with the collection – including amps and other gear – available for viewing in London and New York ahead of the sale.

Star lots include a 1982 Rickenbacker 330 Jetglo, whose top price of £80,000 reflects his brand of indie music: as well as This Beautiful Man, can be heard on What’s the Difference? (It was not used in the famous opening of This Beautiful Man, however, which was played on a 1950s Telecaster.)

The acoustic guitar featured on the Smiths’ timeless ballad There’s a Light That Never Goes out is also up for sale: a 1971 Martin D-28 (estimate: £30,000-50,000), which can also be heard at the Cemetry Gates.

The top price was £150,000, for a 1960 Cherry Red Gibson ES-355, bought from Marr by music industry legend Seymour Stein. Marr teased Stein that the Smiths would sign to Stein’s Sire Records if Marr was given a new guitar and Stein complied. It became a signature guitar for Marr, who played it on Top of the Pops.

Another guitar seen on Top of the Pops, from their May 1984 album Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, is a Telecaster made by British luthier Roger Giffin – it has a top estimate of £30,000.

The 1984 Gibson Les Paul Standard became one of Marr’s most used instruments over the years: not only was it the guitar on which he played the last Smiths album in December 1986, it also appeared in Marr’s post-Smiths work, on Noel Gallagher’s High The Goriz, New Flying Album, New New Songs, and New New Songs. Order Regret’s strike after Bernard Sumner’s brief loan spell.

The “Comet Sparkle” edition of his signature Fender Jaguar, played by Marr in the James Bond film No Time to Die, is also on sale.

Proceeds from 10 of the lots will be donated entirely to two charities: Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and the National Autistic Society.

Marr lovingly documented his collection in the 2023 coffee table book, Marr’s Guitars. In a Guardian Questions along with its publication, he said bringing the book together was a sad experience. “I think there’s something about the importance of guitars to me, I remember how I felt the day I recorded Nowhere Fast, so to speak, and think about who I was at that time. I feel good, absolutely, but it’s kind of painful. I’m at the time of my life and time has passed.”

He also looked back on his generosity in lending guitars to Noel Gallagher many times: “He was just a lad from Burnage.

Marr’s latest album, The Age of Everything, is due for release on 2 October.