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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
What a waste of money
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Without positive verification, it might seem so. There's really no paper trail on this instrument (or the auctioneers choose to withhold it for some strange reason).
Paul McCartney's first guitar (actually his fathers originally) just went for about $600,000. Roger McGuinn's stolen fabled 12 string Rickenbacker turned up and went for around $400,000.
So far, the claim with this auctioned guitar is that it resembles the guitar Johnson was holding in the picture.
Had the guitar passed on to Johnson's son, or a contemporary like Son House or Robert Lockwood, there might be a case for the pricetag, ludicrous as it may seem.