Item 17 Price: $75,000 Appraised Value 2016: $35,000Appraised Value 2021: $15,000 This Collection boasts of guitars from most all of the great master guitar makers active from the 1850s to the present, along with the work of many other talented makers. Its variety and completeness make it useful for some comparative research. But few collections […]
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Item 16 Price: $80,000 Appraised Value 2016: $70,000Appraised Value 2021: $80,000 The soundboard is made from halves of unmatched but straight-grained spruce. The bass half has a 25mm wide piece “winged” onto it to provide sufficient width for the lower bout. Grain spacing varies from 32 per inch near the center seam to 18 per
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Item 15 Price: $70,000 Appraised Value 2016: $70,000Appraised Value 2021: $85,000 SOLD Ignacio Fleta Sr. (1897-1977) built instruments in Barcelona from 1927 to his death. The two-piece soundboard is made of spruce with very close grain and strong medullary rays. Grain spacing graduates from 30 per inch at the center to 22 per inch near
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Item 14 Price: $85,000 Appraised Value 2016: $65,000Appraised Value 2021: $85,000 SOLD The soundboard is made of matched spruce halves with grain spacing varying from 30 per inch in the center to 16 per inch at the edges. The rosette has a center band of mosaic crosses flanked by bands of herringbone. The bridge is
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Item 13 Price: $85,000 Appraised Value 2016: $60,000Appraised Value 2021: $85,000 SOLD This guitar exhibits Hernández’s best craftsmanship and his capability for producing a highly decorated and artistic effort. The guitar is in an amazing state of physical and sonic preservation. It appears new except for four expertly repaired and nearly invisible cracks on the lower
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Item 12 Price: $85,000 Appraised Value 2016: $80,000Appraised Value 2021: $90,000 SOLD Considered to be on the continuum of the greatest guitar makers, José L. Romanillos (1932-) is a luthier and guitar scholar who moved from Madrid to London in 1956 and made his first guitar in 1961. The renowned guitarist Julian Bream was so impressed
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Item 11 Price: $90,000 Appraised Value 2016: $80,000Appraised Value 2021: $90,000 SOLD The soundboard is made of two matched pieces of good quality spruce with grain spacing that varies from 23 per inch at the center to 11 per inch at the edges. The rosette exhibits brilliant artistry and precise execution with a central band of
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Item 09 Price: $115,000 Appraised Value 2016: $100,000Appraised Value 2021: $120,000 Few Francisco González guitars are known to exist. This 1869 guitar was built at a time when the Torres influence had probably reached Madrid, but its older style plantilla, longitudinally and laterally domed soundboard, deep body and simple five fan-strut bracing radiating from a
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Item 08 Price: $150,000 Appraised Value 2016: $120,000Appraised Value 2021: $150,000 SOLD Bouchet’s output was small, only 154 instruments, but the guitars have a handsome look, and a lovely distinct sound which have established Bouchet as an essential luthier in the history of the classical guitar. The soundboard is made from matched halves of spruce with grain spacing varying from 30
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Item 07 Price: $160,000 Appraised Value 2016: $150,000Appraised Value 2021: $200,000 SOLD This guitar is a simple instrument but constructed with skill and care, resulting in a good sounding and good playing guitar. Torres used adequate methods, materials and effort to produce superior results, even inexpensive instruments. Torres’ masterful proportions of the head, neck and
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