Johnny Winter's Erlewine Custom White Lazer Guernsey's Selected Guitars at Auction Johnny Winter's Erlewine Custom White Lazer For more information and a downloadable catalog of listings, see The Guitar Auction. Images, titles, descriptions and estimated values have been provided by the auctioneer. Reverb has updated this page with sold-for prices.
Whether you play, collect, or just drool over guitars, here’s a selection from the items up for auction this Saturday, February 27th. The vintage and autographed guitar markets are littered with the carcasses of people who planned on flipping their auction purchase for a cash score.” The second thing is to buy a guitar because you want it - not because you think it’s a great investment. “One is doing your homework: make sure you know that what you’re buying is exactly what you think it is. “There are two key elements to buying at any auction,” Newquist says. HP Newquist, director of The National Guitar Museum, offered his insights on bidding in the form of a caveat. But if you really want to be 100% certain that it’s going to be to your liking, then come and look at it.” Read More ››Īsked what measures Guernsey’s is taking to ensure authenticity and quality in this auction, he says, “All auctions sell ‘as is.’ We try to do a lot better than that by giving expert opinions on the condition, history and unique features. GGuernsey's auctioned off Les Paul's personal prototype/project guitar, known as Black Beauty, out of Arader Galleries in New York. Les Paul and Chet Atkins Prototype Guitars Go to Auction Ettinger acknowledges that while his house is offering guitars today, tomorrow it could be auctioning Soviet artwork or Mickey Mantle memorabilia. Whatever the top price is, that bid will be successful.”īidders are wise to note that auction houses often provide estimated values and minimum reserves, but they’re not in the business of appraising guitars. “More than half of the items are being sold without minimum reserve, which means anything goes.
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“Auctions are full of surprises,” Ettinger says, explaining that 41 years in the business has taught him there’s no predicting the dollar amount an item will draw when the gavel drops. When Reverb reached Guernsey’s principal auctioneer, Arlan Ettinger, even he was unsure how many items were in the collection - they were still adding guitars at press time, with the latest being an Erlewine Lazer that belonged to Johnny Winter. The diversity of the collection was notable, too, with a range that includes a Weissenborn Hawaiian ($2,500 – $3,500) a 1981 Les Paul Custom signed by John Paul Jones ($7,500 – $10,000) and a chest containing the tools of luthier Joseph Bohmann, from circa 1850. More than 225 items were offered, with bidders invited to partake in person or online via or. This story has been updated with sale prices as of Sunday morning.Īmong the lot were vintage guitars built by world-class luthiers such as D’Angelico, D’Aquisto and Benedetto, and a range of acoustics, archtops and solid-bodies reportedly owned by guitar royalty, including:Ī handful of instruments, including the Django Reinhardt’s Euphonon and an SRV Strat valued at over $250,000, are shown below. On Saturday, Guernsey’s Auction House in New York City auctioned an enormous collection of electric, acoustic, vintage and autographed guitars, and other instruments.
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