The cardigan worn by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana's MTV Unplugged session has been sold for a record-breaking $334,000 (£260,388) at auction.
The sale makes the item – an olive-green Manhattan brand acrylic and mohair cardigan – the most expensive sweater ever sold at auction.
Julien's Auctions, which sold the cardigan alongside a number of other pieces of rock memorabilia across two days at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York, described it as "one of the most famous sweaters in music history".
Nirvana's MTV Unplugged session in New York was recorded at Sony Music Studios in front of a live audience, five months before Cobain killed himself on 5 April 1994.
Also sold was a custom Fender guitar that Cobain used during the band's In Utero tour. The turquoise-bodied, left-handed guitar, which was built in 1993, had been on display for several years at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was accompanied by a handwritten letter by Courtney Love, who stated that it was one of Cobain's favourite instruments.
This weekend marked 25 years since Nirvana's MTV Unplugged session. You can read our critic Ed Power's tribute to the performance here.
