Jewell Smith
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 10 Jun 2019 1:38 pm |
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My father-in-law passed away recently and I have the job of selling off his assets.
His name was James Williams, better known as Jim. He was a avid musician even though he could not read music. He got his first guitar in 1937 a Martin 0018H acoustic but his love was the steel guitar and a 18 years old he was playing with Floyd Tillman's band. He was great friends with Herb Remington till he died and Jim passed 2 months later. I have his original Martin guitar and 3 steel guitars. Two were made by Herb Remington and the other is a MSA Super Slide 2 necks, 8 strings. I will post some pictures as soon as I figure it out. I can't keep any of these and would like to see them go to somebody who plays them. My musical talent consists of maybe getting the right radio station on. |
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Gene Tani
From:
Pac NW
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Posted 10 Jun 2019 3:34 pm
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First, sorry to hear about your father in law, when somebody loses a parent it's time for reflection.
That Martin is potentially a very valuable/historic instrument, and the others are desirable but won't pull in multiple $thousands. If you want to *not* get heavily involved in the sale but realize fair proceeds I would suggest getting in touch w/instrument dealers like Elderly, Carters's and Gruhn's in Nashville, Music Emporium, Fiddler's Green, Gryphon in Palo Alto, to discuss consignment sales. You could try Geoff Hohwald in Atlanta he's mainly a banjo dealer but he'd be ineterested in the Martin. They'll ask you to take a lot of high def photos from many angles but it's not that time consuming.
They may not be expert or experienced in selling steel guitars but they'll certainly want to see that Martin. You can look at asking prices of instruments that sold on Reverb.com, there's a decent number of superslides and Remingtons there. I would say the classifieds here are the best place to sell for experienced players/sellers but I think you don't want to get involved at that level
[edit to add] I would ask around about other vintage guitar dealers within driving range. It's always preferable to not hand a Martin of that vintage over to Fedex or UPS, if you can drive to Nashville there's multiple very reputable dealers. Also consider getting insurance on the Martin, it's that rare a piece.
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