Ramon Amira -> RE: New Guitar/What is it? (Jul. 25 2010 21:20:33)
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Here are my thoughts on this. 1) It's most certainly the same guitar. 2) It's not any kind of professional forgery – any real forger would do a lot better job than that. 3) The EBAY seller could easily be the original poster – Guitarman. By now he would have figured out that this is not an authentic Manuel de la Chica, and is getting what he can. 4) Whether it's the original poster or someone else who wound up with the guitar after Guitarman figured out it wasn't real and so sold it, either person would not be stupid enough to try to sell it as authentic, knowing that that wouldn't fly. So he sells it on EBAY. Knowing that it's not real, the best thing to do is act naïve and totally in the dark. This is an old ploy that is done with many fakes, most notably with fake antique furniture. The idea is to make some sucker think "Wow, this dumbass doesn't know what he's got there. I can steal this from him for a song." With that in mind, even if it is Guitarman and he knows a bout from a "hump," or anyone else who actually does know guitars, the idea is to make it seem like he doesn't, hence words like "hump," which makes him seem like a bumpkin, and enhances the idea that he doesn't know the value of what he's got. He then buttresses that with that wonderful "Grandmother" line, etc. 5) None of this explains the origin and existence of a patently fake Manuel de la Chica label in a guitar that could not possibly pass as authentic. My theory is that some guitarrero in Barcelona, who couldn't make a name for himself, stuck these labels into his own guitars and either sold them to tourists who wouldn't know a de la Chica from Chico Marx, or possibly provided them to some little guitarreria in Barcelona, who sold them for a commission.
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