Quote Originally Posted by stan View Post
might be more heartbreaking than interesting.... I had a Maton solid body electric stolen in the 80's, gold hardware, seymore duncans as standard, beautiful polished timber. I paid $900 for it then, and have never seen one like it since. I dont want to know that is worth a fortune now...
It made me wince for sure. Especially finding out how much '57 Strats and '52 Teles can be worth now. But the real surprise were guitars like the Epiphones I've owned over the years. An early 60's Epi Wilshire I picked up for under $100 is now worth as much as $4k!!
And so many of those Japanese made guitars from the 60's are worth a lot. I used to tear them apart to make other guitars out of them.

That's the tough ones Stan. The stolen ones. I had a '57 Strat stolen. It never showed up anywhere. No stores, no pawn shops.