Value of Guitars

[silverfoxcc]

Our Society has been left several guitars to sell to assist our funds

At the moment all i have is a list of names

I think they are all in good condition

Couple of Questions
Are any of these worth anything to collectors and a rough price
Are any years of manufacture better than others

Just had the list, will see if pics are available

Any info appreciated dont fancy being ripped off


1 Crafter
2 Fender Stratacoustic
3 Fender Stratocaster
4 Gibson ES175
5 Hofner Club
6 Classical guitar
7 Rickenbacker Bass
8 Rickenbacker Fire Glo
9 Yamaha
10 Yamaha Electronic Organ


Not sure what 9 is and 10 is not a guitar!!

[Athlon]

Unsure but I would love that bass!!

[Rough101]

silverfoxcc said:

Our Society has been left several guitars to sell to assist our funds

At the moment all i have is a list of names

I think they are all in good condition

Couple of Questions
Are any of these worth anything to collectors and a rough price
Are any years of manufacture better than others

Just had the list, will see if pics are available

Any info appreciated dont fancy being ripped off


1 Crafter
2 Fender Stratacoustic
3 Fender Stratocaster
4 Gibson ES175
5 Hofner Club
6 Classical guitar
7 Rickenbacker Bass
8 Rickenbacker Fire Glo
9 Yamaha
10 Yamaha Electronic Organ


Not sure what 9 is and 10 is not a guitar!!

1,2, £200 each
3, anything from £500 to £10,000 depending on vintage and if USA, Japan or Mexico
4, £3k plus
5 depends, there is one type in the hundreds, another rare German made one in the thousands.
6 ?
7, 8, 2K plus (fireglo is just the colour, probably a 330 or 360, and might be a 12 string)

[Giantt]

Impossible to say without year/model, photos would help

[silverfoxcc]

have asked for more info

[gazza285]

I’m feeling charitable at the moment, £200 for the lot.

[SmithCorona]

Your best bet is to put them into the Guitar Auction with these guys:

https://www.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/departments/6/G...

They will realise the fair market value.

[elise2000]

SmithCorona said:

Your best bet is to put them into the Guitar Auction with these guys:

https://www.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/departments/6/G...

They will realise the fair market value.

Yes, this. They know what they’re talking about with guitars

[Chubbyross]

SmithCorona said:

Your best bet is to put them into the Guitar Auction with these guys:

https://www.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/departments/6/G...

They will realise the fair market value.

Uh-oh. I haven’t heard of them before. This could be potentially ruinous for me! Some pretty cool bargains have gone through them in the past.

[SmithCorona]

Yes, it is dangerous. I watch most of their monthly-ish auctions.

Pedals and Amps tend to come through at a good discount, but guitars normally hit exactly where they would be on Reverb, give or take. Sometimes there is a bargain, but the popular stuff always does well.

I have a list of about 14 (!!) guitars I have my eye on, so I'm just working through it. It's a disease.

[Chicken Chaser]

silverfoxcc said:

Our Society has been left several guitars to sell to assist our funds

At the moment all i have is a list of names

I think they are all in good condition

Couple of Questions
Are any of these worth anything to collectors and a rough price
Are any years of manufacture better than others

Just had the list, will see if pics are available

Any info appreciated dont fancy being ripped off


1 Crafter
2 Fender Stratacoustic
3 Fender Stratocaster
4 Gibson ES175
5 Hofner Club
6 Classical guitar
7 Rickenbacker Bass
8 Rickenbacker Fire Glo
9 Yamaha
10 Yamaha Electronic Organ


Not sure what 9 is and 10 is not a guitar!!

If 10 is an Electone, then they're pretty worthless as very few want full size organs in their homes. Some of the top end stuff from 30 years ago is worth very little and Electones go back 10 years before that. That said both 9 and 10 could be anything (9 could be a guitar, keyboard, motorbike, or a jet ski!)

[Kinky]

SmithCorona said:

Your best bet is to put them into the Guitar Auction with these guys:

https://www.gardinerhoulgate.co.uk/departments/6/G...

They will realise the fair market value.

Interesting

I'll drop them an email tonight with regards to an Ibanez AR-400 that I've got. I dropped an email to ATB Guitars at the weekend (as per suggestion from the 'show us' thread), but not had any response back yet.

Thanks for the heads-up.

[Kinky]

SmithCorona said:

..... ATB are very local to me and, frankly, world renowned and busy. Don't be offended if you don't get much of a response.

Thanks for the heads-up (again)

Good to know. I did get the usual automated response; and am realistic not expecting an IMMEDIATE reply. I'll keep holding

[languagetimothy]

You can look up the fenders with the serial number

https://serialnumberlookup.fender.com/lookup/

Same for the Gibson

https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Support/Serial-Number...

Once you have the description, year, model you can search on google.

This is not the ideal way to do it at all. Your best bet is to find someone YOU TRUST who knows about guitars and ask them to do the research. A stratocaster for example could be £200 or £60,000 depending on what it is.