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Topic: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

WOW.... what a beauty and rare gem! Wonder how much this guitar will fetch????? Thanks for sharing.

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

What's the deal with the joint in the center?

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

Looks exactly like John McEnroe's lefty 59 LP

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

Paul McCartney might snap this one up!

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

I read where if McEnroe put his guitar up on the auction block that because 59's are so rare and left handed anything is more rare that it would go for $400,000.  Given this was 2 or 3 year ago before the housing economy collapsed.

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

Hendrix could play left and right handed

Wonder how Joe would do playing left?

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

They made a lot less Left handed Guitars than Right handed ones....could bring some serious money to the right buyer.

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

From what I read in the article there were only 4 lefties made, 3 of which still exist and this is one of them.
It also said that this is the guitar that McEnroe posed with on the cover of Guitar Afficionado

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

Then is this not McEnroe's?  I have that one and all they talked about was how rare it was and that it is estimated worth $400,000 and that he bought it in a time where Left handed guitars for the 50's were not popular.

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

The lefty '59 sold for $194,500

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Re: On the Auction Block...1959 LP Standard Sunburst...Left Handed

Rockfarmer wrote:

The lefty '59 sold for $194,500

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Wow....thought it would gone for a lot more...since there were only 4!!!

And so castles made of sand melts into the sea, eventually.........