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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Its called basic economics’ 101: supply vs. demand: much depends on the buyer: are they looking for a cheap bargain or are they a collector looking for the best they can buy? Yes, it's true there are only 392 of the 12's added onto the 1858 6 strings made that year...it's the lowest of all the 12 string collector totals (85 was the other with 715 total 12's)...
In MINT condition w/coa and all hang tags, its worth whatever the buyer is willing to pay: and there and how many Mint ones still around? I happen to have one that is DEAD MINT and it looks like it came out of the factory yesterday!
The one that sold for $600 was a fluke (and a bargain for the buyer) and I doubt you'd ever see a mint condition one again for anywhere near that price!
BTW, I just sold the guitar for 1250 + shipping: and the buyer is someone that already has a 6 string 86 collector: and was looking for 3 years to find the matching 12...He bought the best available and is happy to have it (and just wait till he gets it in his hands and plays it and eyeballs it in person! Sorry Max but I just don't approach buying guitars the way you do...I've bought plenty of "bargains" and very few actually were! This guitar came from the original owner who bought the pair, put them away and sold them at the Great American Guitar Show this year to the fellow I bought it from: now the 12 is going to a fellow OFC'er for the same money I had in it: I am not making money on this...I believe it could have sold on EBay for $1500 w/no problem...it is that mint and rare! |
WTB 1986 Collectors Edition 12 string
