Didn't happen to me but a dealer in a nearby town scored a prewar 000-45 Martin for $15 because it had someone's name written in red paint on the top, needless to say he never was one of my favorite people - there used to be a lot of folks in the vintage trade doing that sort of thing. Guy I worked for in a pawn shop in late 1970 got a pre-war D-28 for $50 and sold it to a vintage dealer for the whopping sum of $500. I bought a '58 'burst Les Paul when I had my retail store (I think it was about 1979) for $265 and sold it to a vintage dealer friend the next day for $800 and I think he sold it to Gruhn. Wish I had all the neat old guitars I had back in the day. Music store I worked in from '70 to '75 had a left handed LP Custom 'fretless wonder' with the square magnets hanging on the wall for $150 - couldn't give it away. My first electric guitar in 1964 was a '60 double cut LP Jr. with cardboard alligator case - cost my parents the whopping sum of $75.
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