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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | On Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3770467159
Currently over $700 with 4 days to go and the RESERVE IS STILL NOT MET!
Looks like "O" values are starting to climb in recent weeks. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Nice looking git. Glad to see the value is being realized. Then again, I might be biased. |
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Location: Avondale AZ | There is a breadwinner limited going for just over $300 in its early bidding. It is on Ebay item number 3771352467. (I am sorry I don't know how to add a link.)
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Location: Midland, MI | I think the one you're talking about is mentioned in another thread here. Or maybe not. I've been sitting with Bacchus all evening and, well...
Anyway to include a url, you type:
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(but without the opening and closing single quotes there)
Like this:
The other Breadweiner dleegblue is talking about |
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Location: Avondale AZ | Thanks Cruster. That is the Breadwinner Limited I was talking about. |
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Location: Chicagoland | Personally, I hope the breadwinners stay cheap so their value can be recognized by us blessed with fewer funds. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Now over $830 and STILL the reserve is not met.
Wonder were it is set at.
Timing is everything and if the reserve is not met this round, he may not get nearly as high the next.
Highest I have seen a Breadwinner go in a long time. |
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Location: Midland, MI | I will bet two (2) red Jim Dunlop stubby guitar picks that the reserve is at $1000US. |
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Location: Tennessee | $1000? When I see a stratocaster or les paul of the same vintage fetching $3000+, all I can think is that $1000 is WAY too low. Add to the equation that this one looks to be a true closet classic, I hope that the last minute swoopers put this thing over $2000! {Of course, that's probably only because I'm saving for the OFC #47+, and I'm not in the hunt on this one.} If I was a real collector, I wouldn't hesitate to part with a grand or more to scoop this one up ... it's going to be worth a boatload more at some point down the line. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Quite amazing. I guess an actual mint early one (early single-coils, nylon saddle bridge, end-mount jack, etched neckplate and battery cover) must be worth $2000 easy :)
I would never have thought this version, basically a white deacon, would ever pull over 1K and although rarely played, it's not even mint (damn close). |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Damn.....$1400 and counting.
Anybody notice when reserve was hit? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Wow. I said I would never sell mine but $1400 is alot of cash. And mine is Ser# 905. |
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Location: Georgia USA | That IS a lot of money, and I'm glad to see it. I have been watching this one too, and I expected it to go for less. But then I would have to have more that that to part with the Demon Deacon (in my gallery). Samova made me a honey of a deal on it, inho. |
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Location: Avondale AZ | The reserve was satisfied when the bid hit $1400. The Breadwinner Limited, which I believe is a better guitar, is still only at $620 and creaping up slowly. It still has some time to go and the Breadwinner has under 20 hours. With all this action on these two guitars, there are a couple of good looking vipers slipping under the radar at less than $300 each. Also, how about that UKll? What makes this particular one so special?
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Location: Georgia USA | Since that Breadwinner went so high, I woke up wondering what you all might think my deacon is worth. It's every bit as mint, with no damage whatever. Sam estimated around $1000. Here's the scoop.
Sam bought all of Ovation's leftover solidbody parts, bodies and hardware. I believe he said there were enough pieces to assemble 3 complete guitars. In 2001 he built (or had them built) the black deacon deluxe in question (in my gallery - I call it the Demon Deacon) and his double neck deacon.
The DD has the better pickups, Schaller bridge, bar inlays in abalone... even the head logo is abalone. And I think Sam said it was one of two gloss black (not breadwinner textured) bodies he was surprised to receive from Ovation. I don't believe the other was assembled. Sam, please correct any of this that I got wrong.
I don't think I'll ever part with it, but was curious. Does the year of assemblage matter to you collectors? What you price it at? |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | jasingram,
There are different kinds of collectors that look for different things. To me date of assembly must be within the date the guitar was made, but that's just a defacto to the guitar must be made at the factory.
I have enough parts to probably build quite a few guitars completely but I won't do it. They are for sale to people for repairs and other projects and of course my own maintenance. I sure would not want to be the unknowing recipient of a guitar that was "advertised" as being an Ovation to find out that someone else assembled it from parts. I do occastionally buy them though as they are also a great source of parts.
Not all collectors are like this, and there is nothing wrong with that either. I very often see things like "near mint condition" with replaced pickups, or my favorite which I guess I need to be a Strat fan to understand is "Vintage Strat with replaced neck and pickups". To some that is fine, to me the first thing I do is restore the guitar to original equipment.
Collecting is a personal thing and I'm guessing there are as many criteria for collectors as there are collectors. |
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