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 10 Price: $80,000 Appraised Value 2016: $60,000Appraised Value 2021: $80,000 SOLD Daniel Friederich (1932-) of Paris was influenced early in his career by fellow Parisian Robert Bouchet, the most respected French guitar maker of his generation. Considered the most respected luthier of the next generation, Friederich combined a scientific approach and careful analysis with
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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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Item 06 Price: $170,000 Appraised Value 2016: $150,000Appraised Value 2021: $180,000 SOLD Bouchet (1898-1986) had two periods of building, each having a different internal bracing philosophy. The first period of 1946 to 1956 was characterized by thin soundboards (1.5 to 2mm typical), seven-strut fan bracing, and openings in the lower harmonic bar through which the outer fan struts passed. The
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Item 05 Price: $190,000 Appraised Value 2016: $150,000Appraised Value 2021: $225,000 SOLD Hermann Hauser I (1882-1952) of Munich, Germany, is renowned for the fresh perspectives and successful incremental improvements he contributed to Spanish style guitar making that hastened the adoption of the genre internationally. The soundboard of this instrument is made of four pieces of spruce
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