Earning His Stripes

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Frank Anselmo wants to get something straight first off: He is not one of those lunatic, nerdy überfan types who latch onto a band like the White Stripes and obsess about getting their grubby little paws on, I don’t know, a piece of Jack White’s hair or anything like that.

OK, now that that’s out of the way … Anselmo, a 28-year-old art director at BBDO in New York, does admit that yes, he is a very, very, very big White Stripes fan—such a fan, in fact, that he barely hesitated when he came across a mint-condition 1965 Airline guitar going for $3,000 recently on eBay.

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