The Gordon Giltrap Collection - Auction

[Catpain Scarlet]

If anyone is interested there’s a massive guitar, amp and music memorabilia auction on 10th June in Corsham, Wiltshire spanning 5 days.
Imagine owning 500 guitars!!

 

https://www.easyliveauction.com/catalogue/5abe5b32c7710c2b409b15545ad1d718/0af8d24542e81eb9357e7ef448a6646f/the-guitar-sale-five-day-auction-including-the-gordon-gi/?currentPage=1

 

[Kiwi]

Sadly the offering isn't quite the same standard as normal.  Lots of starter or budget guitars.  Last auction saw some Mesa kit sell for VERY reasonable prices but I expect shipping charges dampened the enthusiasm of bidders.

[EdwardMarlowe]

Some nice stuff there, especially among the handful of lefties. The 15% buyer's premium up a few just enough to look a little less of a bargain than the hammer price, but yeah unless they charge very little for postage that could quickly eat the rest of the difference in price for buying a lot of the sub-£800 options new. Interesting to see nonetheless. A lot of the prices reinforce my long-held opinion that while a big brand name will definitely help sell something on the used market, proportionate to purchase price having an expensive American guitar alone won't guarantee that it retains more of its new value. Non-limited Gibsons seem to depreciate at about the same rate as Epiphones. My old American Standard Strat would notionally now, after thirty years, sell for more that I paid for it in terms of the figures, but once you adjust for inflation, I'd still only be realising about 60% of the purchase price in real terms. 

Were I local and had a bit of money to burn, there's a few things I'd be sniffing at there... the 74 Strat (always fancied one from my birth year). Those do actually seem to be gonig up in value beyond inflation - in the early 90s you could buy a 70s Strat or Tele for £300, while a pre-CBS Would be about £1500. Even adjusted for inflation ,both of those are far above that value in real terms now. The Godin Kingpin looks great in black (I'm seeing red and ivory pinstriping on that....). I'd love also to try one of those Hendrix Strats - I think that model was originally marketed as the Voodoo Vibe or something along those lines... Always fancied one because it was a left handed guitar sold strung right handed. Wouldn't be any work at all to have the nut flipped, another strap button added, and have it set-up as a lefty. The mirrored logo would look great in that context imo. 

[EdwardMarlowe]

(It'll be interesting to see if the final auction prices are similar or different to the given hammer prices here. Not quite sure how those work, are they start prices or reserves or something in between?)

[tauzero]

The guitarist in my band bought an Ibanez that he'd been looking out for after I passed the link to the auction on and I bought a six-string fretless bass (for just under the lower estimate). Postage isn't cheap (about £50 IIRC) and I went down to pick up the bass, and collected his guitar while I was at it. Buyer's premium was around 25%. With a seller's premium of about the same, the buyer pays around double what the seller receives, which puts Ebay's buyer fee in perspective.

 

There were quite a few 12-strings, which makes a change. I am a bit tempted by the idea of a 12-string solid-body but managed to resist.

 

The guitar:

 

 

The bass: