Add to Ya Gear-Major Jimi Hendrix Auction

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Add to Your Gear - Major Jimi Hendrix Auction
Next Week - London

Thx Hardrock69, let's make a new thread for this baby!

Originally posted by Hardrock69
Well, here are some links to an auction occurring in London on the 16th:

http://www.cooperowen.com/asp/search.asp?pg=30&ps=7
http://www.cooperowen.com/asp/search.asp?pg=31&ps=7

There are 3 Stratocasters owned by Hendrix up for auction, expected to fetch from 60,000 to 150,000 pounds UK.
There are 33 pages of stuff up for auction, including a bunch of autographed items, etc.
Also a bass owned by Noel Redding (and a bunch of other Noel Redding stuff).

Download the whole catalog, lots of cool stuff in those 57 pages. See bottom of homepage for download links.

http://www.cooperowen.com/

Here's the link for the whole catalog in PDF format. It's 27.2 MB

HERE

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HR, those are just estimated values (basically opening bid values) and are always set very low to anticipated actual selling prices,....(are done that way on purpose).

For example sold last May 2004 in open auction:

Clapton's "Blackie"
Estimated: $100,000-150,000
Actual: $959,500

SRV's "Lenny"
Estimated: $15,000 - $20,000
Actual: $623,500

If those kind of multiples hold up, you do the math on what those Hendrix guitars are going to bring, and this market is still extremely strong for the sellers this year.

Ok, understanding the above numbers, anybody want to guess what this Jimi Hendrix famous guitar is going to actually sell for. This guitar is the top item of the entire auction.

What do you think?

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Here's the details:

Est: $218,560 - $291,240

Again this range is basically opening bid on a guitar like this.

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Ok, how about this one.

What do you think will be the price it will actually sell for?
Est: $8,740 - $11,660

Note: Like 7-8 years ago, a little 1 inch headband/sweatband that Hendrix wore, (supposedly he put acid in it while playing so the acid would soak into his sweat pores on his head during the gig), sold for $6,750.

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Jimi at a Martin Luther King Benefit - June 28, 1968

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Noel Redding and Jimi's father Al Hendrix - 2000

Al died at the age of 82 in 2002, and Noel died in 2003 at the age of 57.

[Hardrock69]

A friend of mine has been jamming with Billy Cox here in Gnashville on and off for about 13 years. I have met Billy 2wice at two different gigs locally, and perhaps I may get to just hang out with him someday. My friend saw Billy play his very first gig as part of the JimI Hendrix Experience, or Message to Love Band (or whatever the hell it was) in 1969 in Memphis, TN (the lucky bastid).

I have been into Hendrix since about 1979. Prior to that, I only knew he had done a few hits like Hey Joe and Purple Haze....but then in the spring of 1979 I met a guy who became my best friend (we still talk on the phone for several hours a week), and he introduced me to the story behind Jimi and his amazing and all too short career.

I bin a fanboy ever since...

[GAR]

I can't think of a more coveted collectible guitar than this.

Supposedly that Monica Danneman chick had the other white one, but she croaked in 1996 and it's since disappeared. Perhaps the two are the same?

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Originally posted by GAR
I can't think of a more coveted collectible guitar than this.

Supposedly that Monica Danneman chick had the other white one, but she croaked in 1996 and it's since disappeared. Perhaps the two are the same?

I was hoping you knew something. This auction guitar is not Hendrix main white ax, he played in '69 Woodstock and others, per doing some research on the subject. I mean, the serial numbers don't match, from what I understand.

Still probably bring well over a million, what do you think?

[GAR]

Of course it will, especially since Paul Allen is determined to own it - just watch!

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Originally posted by GAR
Of course it will, especially since Paul Allen is determined to own it - just watch!

BaJesus, it that guy wants it he could drive prices throught the roof. Hell he “only” paid $1.3 million in ’93 for Jimi’s 1968 Fender 'Woodstock' Stratocaster.

When I first saw this guitar for auction next Wednesday, my mind immediately said $1.5 million, without any thinking about it, but I have no basis for that number………just what jumped into my mind.

Guess we will see.

[Hardrock69]

Ahhh so THAT is how much Paul Allen paid for it.....it originally sold at auction for about $340,000 to an Italian businessman when Mitch Mitchell put it up for sale in 1980.

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Originally posted by Hardrock69
Ahhh so THAT is how much Paul Allen paid for it.....it originally sold at auction for about $340,000 to an Italian businessman when Mitch Mitchell put it up for sale in 1980.

I having to recall from memory, GAR probably knows more, but that guitar sold again in 1990, then was resold in 1993 when Allen purchased it.

[Panamark]

The guitar I can understand. But who would want a chunk of a trashed
strat ? For that money I want to be able to play the fooking thing.