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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on January 9, 2011 at 5:53am

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.

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on January 9, 2011 at 12:31pm

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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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on January 9, 2011 at 12:38pm

I am running out to my back yard right now and burying some of mine. That oughta increase their value!!

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Permalink Reply by Ben on January 10, 2011 at 3:53am

Make sure to rip that carefully crafted fretboard off of it first!

Dan Sleep said:

I am running out to my back yard right now and burying some of mine. That oughta increase their value!!

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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on January 10, 2011 at 6:05am

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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Permalink Reply by Ben on January 10, 2011 at 6:27am

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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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on January 10, 2011 at 8:16am

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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Permalink Reply by Larry McInnes on January 11, 2011 at 11:39am

One of the questions I was given at my job interview today was, "What do you do for pleasure?"  Of course, this is where the topic of building CBGs comes in.  And one of my interviewers says, "I just saw a cigar box mandolin on TV yesterday!"  It was a beautiful thing.

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