estebanana -> RE: Barbero for $4200E?? (Dec. 12 2014 13:46:49)
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Look through the photos in the slide show. Stop when you get to the one that shows the back of the headstock. You can see it has been reconstructed at least twice. That head stock has been transplanted on two other guitars. You can see three different kinds of cedar, from two earlier graft operations. It's very difficult to authenticate something in this condition. The top also looks like it has been sanded and the bridge is either not authentic or it has been refinished. A lot of the pathces a grafts on the body are poorly done. And the label is in bad shape and doe snto have any stamps to prove it went with that body. And they are not showing the neck slipper foot inside the guitar, it should in a best scenario be stamped or show the hand of Barbero. IM not an expert, but I would run it by R.E. Brune' and Aaron Green to see that they say. The thing it t determine if Barbero are already at the address in 1948 or still finished guitars for others, I'm not clear on the exact timeline but I know who to ask. It is possible some parts are Barbero and some parts are not. The plantilla is not unlike a Barbero, but it's hard to tell from pictures. The heel of the neck looks like Madrid work from that time period, but without see the inside of the guitar and the foot and the braces it is hard to tell. It could two Barberos cobbled together: A neck grafted on headstock form another on a Barbero body. Or a fake headstock grafted on a beat up Barbero body, or a real Barbero headstock grafted onto a similar guitar like a Viuda de Santos Hernandez, with a worn and torn Barbero label from a wrecked Barbero. There area lot of possibilities, but one thing is sure, this guitar is a product of two or more guitars that were cannibalized together and one or both might not be a real Barbero.
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