A miniature version of Eddie Van Halen’s red, black, and white striped Kramer guitar, used by Brian Hitchcock, the child actor tasked with playing a young Eddie Van Halen in the 1984 music video for the song, “Hot for Teacher.”

The non-functional prop guitar has a 19-inch scale length maple neck with a 21 fret maple fretboard, a Kramer-branded headstock with six-in-line chrome tuners, and no string tree. The body has a striped finish mimicking Eddie’s full-size guitar, a chrome hard tail bridge, two pickups (one single coil size, one ‘zebra’ humbucker) and a half pickguard with a single volume control and output jack. The body is signed in black sharpie “Eddie Van Halen” and “Thanx Bryan.”

Includes a brown leather case with a VH Productions label. Also included is Hitcock’s outfit from the video, which is comprised of a white cotton T-shirt with “No Bozos” graphic print on the front, a pair of “Sergio Valente” torn jeans, and an “Oleg Cassini” denim vest. Also included are a script, three call sheets from the video shoot, a large color photograph of Hitchcock and Eddie Van Halen posing with their guitars at the shoot; 30 small color photos, some polaroids, the majority showing Hitchcock during the filming of the video, others of him attending the Third American Video Awards, 1985; and three contemporary music magazines featuring articles and photos on the filming of the video.

"Hot For Teacher" is the fourth single released from Van Halen's sixth studio album "1984." The video was directed by Pete Angelus and David Lee Roth, and showed the band as themselves and as young students. The plot follows a young nerdy boy called "Waldo" (voice by Phil Hartman) and his classmates on their first day of school.

Bryan was invited to attend the American Video Awards with the band because the video was nominated for Best Video that year in the Band category. It was also the last single and video released by Van Halen before David Lee Roth’s departure.

Sounding off with guest contributor: Alan Light
The music video for Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” is one of the most memorable and hilarious clips in MTV history. It’s nerdy Waldo’s first day of school, and when he gets there, he meets four kids who are perfect pre-teen simulations of the members of Van Halen, complete with precisely rendered miniature instruments. This prop guitar was unforgettably wielded by child actor Brian Hitchcock, who played the young Eddie Van Halen; it’s a scaled-down version of Eddie’s Kramer guitar, with the signature red, black, and white striped finish. (The body is signed in black Sharpie “Eddie Van Halen” and “Thanx Bryan.”) It comes with extensive documentation of the shoot and the outfit Hitchcock wore, including the t-shirt reading “No Bozos.”