The 2011 season opener of Antiques Roadshow from Miami has a Cigar Box mandolin, circa early 20th century. Rough, but cool!
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My parents saw that one and told me about it, have not seen a picture yet. They said it had a high value. Found it! I'm not sure the appraiser knows exactly what he is talking about, Sounds like he is making some of it up on the spot. Check out the video here. http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Antiques-Roadshow-107/episodes/Apprais...
It is a neat one, the raised soundboard is kind of cool, made to look like a real mandolin.
I am running out to my back yard right now and burying some of mine. That oughta increase their value!!
I saw that too, $1.2k for something that looks like it was stored in a dirt basement. I agree with you Michael I think that appraiser was talking out of thin air.
Being that I personally BOUGHT over 40 antique CBGs, I can tell you the appraiser was way off. Maybe during the good economy, it could have fetched $300-400 at most. However, the only ones that were doing stupid money around $1200 were one-string diddley bows with long necks. And most of these were wrongly attributed to African American primitive diddley bows. They were most likely instruments created by your average woodshop tinkerer after seeing plans in woodworking magazines. (We have those plans in the Free Plans section of the Nation.)
colin mcgrath said:I saw that too, $1.2k for something that looks like it was stored in a dirt basement. I agree with you Michael I think that appraiser was talking out of thin air.
Ha!
Ben said:
I was wondering why you were waiting to cash in the museum!
Shane Speal said:Being that I personally BOUGHT over 40 antique CBGs, I can tell you the appraiser was way off. Maybe during the good economy, it could have fetched $300-400 at most. However, the only ones that were doing stupid money around $1200 were one-string diddley bows with long necks. And most of these were wrongly attributed to African American primitive diddley bows. They were most likely instruments created by your average woodshop tinkerer after seeing plans in woodworking magazines. (We have those plans in the Free Plans section of the Nation.)
colin mcgrath said:I saw that too, $1.2k for something that looks like it was stored in a dirt basement. I agree with you Michael I think that appraiser was talking out of thin air.
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