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This seems odd
Local Craigslist, asking $12,345 for an Epiphone mandolin from 1980.
https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/...377013650.html
Mandolin is allegedly signed by Bill Monroe, who if he signed it either did so while the top was off or through the F hole
https://images.craigslist.org/00I0I_...2_1200x900.jpg
This would have been made in Japan or Korea? Is there something extra special about 70s-80s epiphone mandolins
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Without the autograph it would be worth a few hundred bucks but with the autograph it's worth a few hundred bucks.
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Gee, I wonder if I can get a price like that for my autographed picture of Bill...
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Well from what auto's I've seen of Big Mon's that's not his I don't think?
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He's looking to trade so $12,345 is not the price, it's really internet slang for "no set price"
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Monroe used to briefly play, and also Sharpie-sign, mandolins which audience members brought to him after performances -- played my F-5 copy, said it was a "nice horn (?)," which is wasn't, really.
I'd guess the Epi owner asked him to sign it through the f-hole, and got the squiggle you see. I didn't ask him to sign mine, and sold it soon after. Never thought "the touch of the master's hand" (look up the poem!) would have increased the value significantly.
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If the autograph is real or not I really don't think it changes value of this instrument. It's worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
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And it even comes with an "after marked" case!
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BM apparently signed one of my mandolins - http://www.mandolinarchive.com/gibson/serial/23871 - there was no trace of the signature when I bought it; the shop owner had apparently removed it, but he got quite a shock when I asked him what had happened to it!
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The price of 12345 is a dead giveaway somethings not right. Not to mention it’s not worth it.
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Put down your wallet and run, run, run.
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Tell him he's dreaming....
:grin: