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Topic: Stratocaster Brings BIG $ |
Pat Carlson
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 5:48 pm |
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It was reported in the Sunday paper a 1955 Fender Stratocaster sold for over $76000,In Lincoln!! 
I'm not a 6 string picker but guessing this is sort of like serial number # 1 Sho~Bud LDG selling. Wow!
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 7:09 pm
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Here is the Completed eBay auction: click this.
This was a fun auction to watch. This is a collector’s dream. One owner mint condition ‘55 Strat w/’55 Tremolux amp. And a great story to go with it. The seller seems like a really sweet lady who bought this set as a young girl with hopes of being a country star! It doesn’t get much better than that. This equipment is basically unused. Over 44,000 people viewed the auction. The seller required local pickup (no shipping) which makes the high ending price all the more amazing. Some bidders said they would fly to NE to pick the stuff up and drive home. The current book value for a ’55 Strat in EX cond. is $33,000. The amp is about $2500. Mint brings a premium, plus the Set adds to the value, as does the great story to go with it.
Vintage pedal steel guitar values will never come close to vintage guitar values. The demand and interest just isn’t there, as much as we all deny it!
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[This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 23 January 2006 at 07:11 PM.] |
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Jeff Coffell
From:
Killeen Texas
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 7:51 pm
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I bet THE BLADE would bring that kind of $$ if E ever decided to sell it.
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 23 Jan 2006 10:08 pm
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Maybe, but “Star” guitars are in a class all their own. Eric Clapton's ‘Brownie' Strat sold at auction for $497,500.00 a couple of years ago.
And to think I sold my ‘58 Telecaster for $130... 35 years ago!  |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 24 Jan 2006 2:44 am
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In sold my 54 Strat ( not original PUPS, dated around 58 or so ) ) for $3000 in 83...
I sold my all original 57, custom ordered BLACK..I was the 2nd owner, for $1700 in 79 or so...
a far cry from $75 grand....[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 24 January 2006 at 02:45 AM.] |
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Marlin Smoot
From:
Kansas
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Posted 24 Jan 2006 6:56 am
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I'm amazed at the prices of older Sho-Buds.
They are some of the best deals on the planet.
Because of the amount of older steels availiable...and new steels still being produced by several great company's,...then factor in how many steel players there are...should keep the used steel market pricing "interesting" to say the least.
I've been keeping an eye out for a SD-10 or D-10 Sho-Bud. Everything from an LDG to the Pro series. Some have a lot of miles on them and some have hardly any playing time on them at all but the pricing is somewhat the same.
It really depends on the person selling. I would guess some of the guitars that were hardly played were purchased by people who kinda gave up on learning thus, they just sit in the case.
I found a S10 Emmonds that sat in the case for 20+ years. Needless to say, is a nice guitar. I was also able to get into the guitar for a good deal, meaning what I would pay for it.
This guitar came around while I was looking for a Sho-Bud D-10 and I did not want to pass it up, but I'll keep searching for the Sho-Bud. I know there's one out there that needs a good home. |
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Gary Glisson
From:
munford, tn 38058
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Posted 24 Jan 2006 8:00 am
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thats cheap; i've seen broadcaster's strats and tell's gor for as high as 45,000.00
broadcaster's were the frist of leo finders guitars made |
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Geoff Brown
From:
Nashvegas
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Posted 24 Jan 2006 5:27 pm
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The winning bidder on that Strat is a dealer who has a reputation for parting-out vintage Fenders 
I doubt this one will get touched. In 5 years, 76k will look like a bargain. It was quite the auction, and quite the git-fiddle. |
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Dave Zielinski
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 24 Jan 2006 6:09 pm
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I have a 1962 original that may be for sale if i find the right Bigsby.
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Jennings Ward
From:
Edgewater, Florida, R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Feb 2006 12:43 pm
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WELL IT LOOKS LIKE I AM THE " DUMBY" AGAIN..
DUE TO HEALTH REASONS,, I SOLD MY 56 STRAT,
THAT I BAUGHT NEW IN 56, IN CHICAGO,ILL.
IT ALMOST BROKE MY HEART, CARRIED THIS GUITAR
WITH ME IN THE ARMY AND EVERY WHERE I WENT..
EVEN HAD TO "SWEET TALK " AN X IN ORDER TO RECOVER THE GUITAR,,,,JUST AL LITTLE LESS THAN
$ 20k IS WHAT I SOLD IT FOR.....
MADE SOME DR.s HAPPY.........
JENNINGS,,STILL CRYING
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 3:01 am
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| Telecasters were the only Broadcasters that Leo made. That's what they were called until Gretsch raised a fuss about the name because they were making a drum kit called the Broadcaster. Leo then changed the name to Telecaster. By the time the Strats came out the battle was long over. It's in Forrest White's book from Fender. |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 11:24 am
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$76,000? That's chump change! How about this:
"June 25, 2004
Eric Clapton Stratocaster "Blackie" Becomes Most Expensive Guitar Sold at Auction
by TOM WATSON
Eric Clapton's prized Stratocaster, "Blackie", brought $959,500 in the Christie's Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Auction, becoming the most expensive guitar ever to have been sold at auction. Stevie Ray Vaughan's Stratocaster, "Lenny" received the second highest price ever paid for a Fender Stratocaster at auction, fetching $623,500. A new world record was also set for the sale of a Gibson guitar - Clapton's 1964 red Gibson ES-335 brought $847,500."
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2006 4:25 pm
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Garcia, yep, THAT Garcia:
"Tiger" - $750,000
"Rosebud" - $850,000
A lot of the hippies who didn't go crazy from the acid became dot.com millionaires - might as well buy a pretty guitar, I guess. |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 8 Feb 2006 12:09 am
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| broadcaster's were the frist of leo finders guitars made |
The first guitars that Leo Fender made were steel guitars.
The first fretted(or electric Spanish) guitars that came from Fender was the Esquire. It came out late spring of 1950. They had a single pick-up model and a double pick-up model. The bodies were made of pine and they were painted black. The necks were maple and didn't have a truss-rod. Fender only made about 50 of them and quite a few came back to Fender very soon, because the necks and bodies would warp and didn't last to long.
In October of 1950 the Esquire was replaced by the Broadcaster. It had a truss-rod an ash body and two pick-ups. In January of '51 they re-introduced the Esquire as the single pick-up version of the Broadcaster, with ash body and truss-rod.
Then in February of '51 they stopped using the name Broadcaster, because of the Gretsch drums called the Broadkaster.
Then by mid-summer of '51 they started calling it the Telecaster.
In '54 they came out with the Stratocaster.
quote:
WELL IT LOOKS LIKE I AM THE " DUMBY" AGAIN..
DUE TO HEALTH REASONS,, I SOLD MY 56 STRAT,
THAT I BAUGHT NEW IN 56, IN CHICAGO,ILL.
IT ALMOST BROKE MY HEART, CARRIED THIS GUITAR
WITH ME IN THE ARMY AND EVERY WHERE I WENT..
EVEN HAD TO "SWEET TALK " AN X IN ORDER TO RECOVER THE GUITAR,,,,JUST AL LITTLE LESS THAN
$ 20k IS WHAT I SOLD IT FOR.....
Jennings,
I don't think you should feel to bad. The '55 Strat that sold for $76k was in mint condition with a mint condition '56 Tremoluxe amp. The lady who sold said she got when she was a kid because she wanted to be a country star. She never did use it, and never became a country star. It was put away and still had the original strings on it.
Another reason for the over inflated price is that the winning bidder "tune-o-matic" and another bidder "vegas-eddie" got into a bidding war. I think they did it for a reason.
They both sell and trade vintage guitars, and even strip some of them down and try to make more money by selling them as parts.
It's to their benefit to keep raising the market price on these guitars. And that's exactly what they did.
They day after the auction someone on another forum, who was the third place bidder on this auction, got an email from the winning bidder. The winner "Tune-o-matic" told him he new of another clean '55 Strat and could broker a deal for $76k
Anyway I think you should be happy with the time you spent with that old Strat, and just think that someone paid you $20,000 to play it all those years. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 8 Feb 2006 7:49 am
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If I'm not mistaken, between the "Broadcaster" and the "Telecaster", there was a model everybody called the "no-caster" because all it said on the headstock was Fender. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Erv |
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 8 Feb 2006 10:06 am
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quote:
If I'm not mistaken, between the "Broadcaster" and the "Telecaster", there was a model everybody called the "no-caster" because all it said on the headstock was Fender. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Erv
True,
Fender had all those Broadcaster decals made up. They just cut the broadcaster word off and used them for a few months, till they got in the Telecaster decals. |
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