Re: 103 vintage guitars stolen

For guitars of the straight waisted variety (or reverse offset).
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103 vintage guitars stolen

Post by Sauerkraut » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:10 am

103 vintage guitars were stolen in Italy last thursday:
http://xoomer.alice.it/realvintage3/stolen.html

that's an insanely nice collection, quite a few offsets aswell

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Re: 103 vintage guitars stolen

Post by mezcalhead » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:22 am

Blimey .. that wasn't the guy who took the pictures with all the guitars lined up on the steps of his mansion, was it?
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Re: 103 vintage guitars stolen

Post by Sauerkraut » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:33 am

mezcalhead wrote: Blimey .. that wasn't the guy who took the pictures with all the guitars lined up on the steps of his mansion, was it?
the picture with all the Jags and Jazzmasters? I don't think this guy has that enough offsets for that.

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Re: 103 vintage guitars stolen

Post by zhivago » Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:37 am

I think the mansion guy was a private collector...these guys have a shop...

jesus, I dunno what I'd do if I had so many vintage guitars stolen!

the thieves knew what they were doing!

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Re: 103 vintage guitars stolen

Post by fullerplast » Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:04 am

How the heck do you make off with 103 guitars and not be noticed?

Sheesh! That's something.  :(


We'll have to L@@K! for them on the bay... hehe
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Re: 103 vintage guitars stolen

Post by FireAarro » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:50 am

It can't be very easy selling 103 stolen vintage guitars...
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Re: 103 vintage guitars stolen

Post by Naturality » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:42 am

"Jazzmaster 1968 Olympic White 157024 Golden hardware matching peghead Excellent"
:? Damn thieves! >:(

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Re: 103 vintage guitars stolen

Post by FireAarro » Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:15 pm

Naturality wrote:
"Jazzmaster 1968 Olympic White 157024 Golden hardware matching peghead Excellent"
:? Damn thieves! >:(
Eww, gold hardware :P
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Re: 103 vintage guitars stolen

Post by daydreamdelay » Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:25 am

eeew but I'd kill to see a pic of that.. anyone see one like that before???

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