Quote from: edwardofhuncote on January 22, 2025, 07:32:20 AMAnyway, the subject guitar of this thread has been bought and is now being resold (or attempting to be...) by a dealer for another $9k markup. I say good luck to them. I still have the same opinion about it.

Those prices are bananas (apologies to Lowell). I'm ashamed to say how little two-owner incredibly pure 1922 0-42 cost when I scooped it up ten years ago. I guess I'm a dinosaur.

Quote from: Nova Constellatio on June 11, 2026, 10:33:54 AM

Quote from: edwardofhuncote on January 22, 2025, 07:32:20 AMAnyway, the subject guitar of this thread has been bought and is now being resold (or attempting to be...) by a dealer for another $9k markup. I say good luck to them. I still have the same opinion about it.

Those prices are bananas (apologies to Lowell). I'm ashamed to say how little two-owner incredibly pure 1922 0-42 cost when I scooped it up ten years ago. I guess I'm a dinosaur.

Oooh. Or maybe you just shopped wisely? I like that kinda' stuff a lot! 

I'd forgotten about this thread too. I don't know if Banana ever did sell his early-pearly Martin 00 or not. I know he's been downsizing quite a bit in recent years. I was most interested in a Nicola Turturro OM type guitar he had, clearly patterned after a Martin, but slightly smaller. A very interesting guitar. That guy finds the coolest stuff. The subject-of-post guitar did eventually sell, much to the chagrin and a lot of pearl-clutching by mostly non-interested parties. I think the same thing I did then. 

I used to see Banana pretty regularly - my office is just around the corner from Eric Schoenberg's place (he was the one who brokered the deal for that 1936 000-18S I posted in the Miscellaneous thread), and he was a regular at the shop until ten or twelve years ago. Lowell has very interesting taste in instruments.

The 00-42 was an interesting story. The guy who'd had it since the late '50s or early '60s had lived at a boarding house near Seattle when he was a freshman in college. He stayed there over the summer, helping the twin spinsters who owned it with maintenance. That autumn, they gave him the guitar as a thank you gift. Their father had ordered it for them in 1922, and neither the sisters had ever learned to play it. The gentleman I bought it from never picked it up either, and it basically came to me looking virtually unused.