Beltona
Brand Beltona
Type Electro Resonator
Year Unknown
Serial number Unknown
Additional info
Mark used this guitar for Denomination blues, K.C. Moan and Can't be satisfied with the Notting Hillbillies in both 1998 and 1999. At the Mark Knopfler & Friends charity shows in July 2002, Mark used it for Can't be satisfied. Mark got this guitar as a present at the end of the Golden Heart tour, 4th August 1996. It is engraved on the back with the 'Golden Heart' emblem, initials and date. See also this article, taken from www.beltona.net. Later, Mark played it again during a meeting with Steve Phillips at Robin Hood's Bay, UK, 28th March 2012. See some pictures here and here. In 2019, Mark used it on Heart full to holes during the Down the road wherever tour.
 

 

Brand Beltona
Type Electro Resonator
Year Unknown
Serial number Unknown
Additional info This picture is taken on 3rd July 1993 at the Town & Country Club, Leeds, UK. It was a charity concert for the Kirkstall Valley Campaign. It is another Beltona Electro Resonator, but the pattern of the round metal plate is different, aswell as the dots on the neck.

 

Brand Beltona
Type Mandola
Year Unknown
Serial number Unknown
Additional info
According to this article, Mark Knopfler also owns a Beltona Mandola (Mandolin). I don't have a picture of that actual guitar, but it is most likely something like the picture on the left which is taken from www.beltona.net. I never read or saw anything about this before and I am not 100% sure if that info from the Beltona site is accurate regarding this instrument being part of Mark's collection.

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