Maccaferri

Joli Gadjo · February 2012

If by the time you look at this, the link is inactivated, it was a 1930s Maccaferri, labelled Selmer on the headstock and tagged Selmer inside the body.
Should probably go for around $25,000.

http://www.leboncoin.fr/instruments_de_ ... htm?ca=8_s

Joli Gadjo · February 2012

from Manoucheries:

It seems that this guitar has been for sale for a little while now. That is not the first ad about it.
In a previous post, it was asked 13,000Euros (~ $17,000).
The story says that there is a crack on the top next to the D hole. You can see it on the pictures.

Craig Bumgarner · February 2012

Glad to see the price coming down, but I'm still a little short :oops:

There is also some displacement of the top wood suggesting that things are moving around inside, but that is what you get with a guitar that is 70+ years old and has seen a hard life on the road. I should think it is repairable. After seeing the repair Leo Eimers did on Selmer #657 that got crushed in a car accident, anything is possible.

http://www.eimersguitars.com/restauration.html Scroll down to Selmer 657, the picture links only seem to work in MS IE, not Firefox or Chrome, at least for me.

CB