Jimi Hendrix

20 x 82mm., a harmonica engraved on upper and lower sides with manufacturer’s details "M. HOHNER’S VEST POCKET HARP, Made In Germany..." several small dents to lower side; [with:] signed affidavit from Matthew M. Quashie, 31 March 2011 ("...Jimi Hendrix told me that Bob Dylan gave him this harmonica when he was performing at Cafe Wha? He used it to tune his guitar when he came to visit me in my Bedford Street apartment. He kept it in the front room. He left it there when he left for the Isle [of] Wight Concert...")

Corey Kilgannon, "He Bent Over Backward, for This? Limbo King of 60s says he'll sell mementos to pay rent", New York Times, 27 September 2003

Trinidadian Matthew (Mike) Quashie, known as the 'Limbo King' was a star of the New York stage in the 1960s, performing on Broadway, on numerous tours and on The Ed Sullivan Show. He "thrilled New York society with his exotic routine and helped popularize the limbo as a dance craze in the early 1960s".  Quashie befriended a number of musicians including Jimi Hendrix, and in an interview with Corey Kilgannon of the New York Times in 2003, Quashie recounted how he "nurtured, protected, lodged, promoted or otherwise championed" many musicians. He described how Hendrix used to stay in  Quashie's apartment in Greenwich Village, using it "as a refuge from his many hangers-on". Quashie’s long-held claim that his flamboyant performances, exotic costumes, startling light shows and dramatic pyrotechnics influenced Hendrix and many others including Bowie, Kiss and Alice Cooper, was supported by Lou Reed in an interview in 2003.