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VINTAGE GUITAR GALLERY

THESE GUITARS ARE SOLD and these photos are included FOR REFERENCE ONLY!

 

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BRITISH

1959 Burns-Weill Super Streamline Bass

Non-stanard body shape prototype!

c.1961 BURNS 'Defiant' Thinline Archtop Prototype

Delphin Soundholes, Floating Pick-up

c.1962 BELL 'Carousel'

Semi-Hollow Thinline, electrics by Henry Weill on Duralumin Pickguard, plus Burns 'Mk 7' Tremolo!

c.1963 Broadway

Guyatone marketed by Rose-Morris with Electrics by Harry Weill

1964 BURNS 'Nu-Sonic'

Dated 27th August 1964

leaning against c.1963 BURNS Orbit Amplifier

with c.1964 Burns Nu-Sonic String Packets on top!

1982 SHERGOLD Custom Masquerader

New Old Stock, Black, custom-ordered with contoured body and Hard Case

 

GERMAN

c.1959 FASAN Solidbody Electric Prototype

Copper-burst finish with 'Ideal' Pickup

c.1960s FASAN

Sunburst Double-Cutaway Thinline

c.1954 FRAMUS Cutaway

With Original Framus Floating Pickup

c.1956 HOPF 'Original'

Cats-eye Soundholes

c.1960s HOYER Thinline

c.1961 MIGMA Star 62

Solid-Carved Top, Back and Sides, Rellog Pickup in Fingerboard Extension

 

AMERICAN

1963 FENDER Jaguar

Seafoam Green, re-finished, glitter competition stripe, pearloid scratchplate

1965 FENDER Jaguar

Candy Apple Red, matching headstock, birds-eye maple neck

 

1967 FENDER Jazzmaster

Olympic White, rare matching headstock, flamed birds-eye maple neck

1952 GIBSON ES-295

Gold, Refinished

1968 GIBSON Melody Maker

Walnut, 2 PUs, large headstock

1957 GRETSCH Chet Atkins 6120

Humptop Block model with G-Brand

1958 GRETSCH 6120 Chet Atkins

Transitional Humptop Block model with Pre-PAF Filtertrons

1968 GRETSCH Streamliner

Burgundy Red

 

Black Guitars, North London Based Guitar And Bass Repairs Workshop: Expert Guitar Repairs, Custom Guitar Builds and Vintage Guitar Sales

MAKER UNKNOWN!

Can you identify any of these?

 

Unidentified German

Archtop Jazz-Guitar, c.1950s

 

 

Unidentified British Electric

Home-Made(?) c.1960

 

 

Unidentified Bass

British(?) c.1960s

 

DUTCH

 

c.1950s EGMOND Lucky 7

Imported to UK by Rosetti

 

 

c.1960s EGMOND Airstream Mach II

Imported to UK by Rosetti

 

 

c.1960s EGMOND Airstream Mach II (Refinished)

Imported to UK by Rosetti

 

JAPANESE

 

c.1967 CIPHER

White Sparkle Finish

Marketed in USA by Inter-Mark

 

 

c.1970 KAWAI Greenburst Thinline Semi-Acoustic

Marketed in USA as Sekova

 

 

c.1970 KAWAI Sunburst Thinline

Marketed in USA as Sekova

 

 

1960s Unknown Japanese

Marketed in USA as HARMONY H-15 'Bob Cat'

 

 

 

SPANISH

 

 

c.1960s ALHAMBRA Classical

In rare Red Sunburst finish