drumuitar
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Posted on Jan 26 2012 11:37 PM
Mary Ford's doofus nephew sold this guitar to the guys at Pawn Stars for 90 grand. It's now on eBay with a bin of 250k. As you may already know, Les hated these guitars and demanded Gibson remove his name from them. It's still a historic guitar. I'm pretty sure that this is the same guitar that Mary is holding on the front jacket cover of "Les Paul & Mary Ford - Warm and Wonderful."
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DaveF
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Green Valley, AZ
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Posted on Jan 27 2012 01:56 AM
Is this part of the "road worn" series ?
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caddady
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N.E. Ohio
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Posted on Jan 27 2012 07:48 AM
There is a nice Les Paul display in Cleveland @ R&R hall of fame, this would have made a nice addition.
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MLC
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Upstate New York
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Posted on Jan 27 2012 08:44 AM
drumuitar wrote:
As you may already know, Les hated these
guitars and demanded Gibson remove his name from them.
I watched that show and part of this package includes letters where references are made to potential deals with other guitar companies.
Les was NOT happy with Gibson at the time.
Some of those documents are even more interesting than the guitar itself. Who knows what the guitar industry would look like today if he had followed through with those plans.
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Sonichris
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Posted on Jan 27 2012 09:17 AM
The pawnstar guys didn't waste any time getting this one on the market. I think that episode was brand new last week. I bet they sat on it for a while until the episode aired. If it sells for $250k, thats $160k profit. Pretty decent return I'd say.
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psychonaut
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Posted on Jan 27 2012 10:10 AM
Sonichris wrote:
The pawnstar guys didn't waste any time getting this
one on the market. I think that episode was brand new
last week. I bet they sat on it for a while until the
episode aired. If it sells for $250k, thats $160k
profit. Pretty decent return I'd say.
They really Low-balled the guy.
He was stupid though. He should have consigned it at a legit auction house, or sold it to a reputable vintage instrument dealer who would have given him at least 70% of it's value, especially with all that provenance, it's an auctioneers dream.
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websurfer
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Posted on Jan 27 2012 11:37 AM
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Before I began selling on eBay, I consigned some things with a well known vintage instrument dealer. They got me a better price than I ever could have (based on their reputation and clietele) and charged a very reasonable fee for it.
Selling a family heirloom to a pawn shop has to be a last resort. It's a shame if it's the case that the seller really was that hard up for quick cash.
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Sonichris
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Posted on Jan 27 2012 12:24 PM
From what I've read, that show searches out items, and brings people in from out of town to pawn at their shop. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it was a set up, and that the guy will get some of the proceeds from this. Publicity for the show, and he gets most of his asking price. he originally said he wouldn't take less than $250k for it, then he sells it for $90k?
Also, anyone notice that when they are dealing with a selling customer on the show, the place is virtually empty, but any other time the place is jammed with customers and looky lu's?
Set up or not, either way, I like watching the show.
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drumuitar
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Boise, ID
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Posted on Jan 27 2012 02:48 PM
You're right on Chris. Pawn Stars still has a little bit of unstaged moments but it and all the rest of these shows are pretty much phony.
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drumuitar
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Boise, ID
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Posted on Feb 03 2012 08:13 PM
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Icetech
Joined: Dec 16, 2006
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Macomb Mich
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Posted on Feb 05 2012 12:28 PM
Seems they didnt lowball the guy at all and were a little high in what they gave him.. after ebay fees and such they wont make hardly anything on this deal:(
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Sonichris
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Posted on Feb 05 2012 12:35 PM
I don't know why Ebay was the place they thought to sell it, other than there are lots of lookers, and it's good, cheap advertising. The Pawn Star guys aren't stupid, and now everyone that has even a passing interest in historic guitars knows about this one.
Shill bidders on an item like this wouldn't be out of the question.
I'll bet we see this guitar again in the near future at a real auction.
I tried to place a bid, just for fun, for $101201.02, but ebay wouldn't let me without prior large purchase history. I wanted to take a snapshot of my high bid, and use it for my facebook page.
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dp
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mojave desert, california
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Posted on Feb 06 2012 08:09 PM
They should try Butterfield's or Sotheby's... they'll attract the Big Fish they're searchin' for...
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