Echi -> RE: Conde Hermanos Blanca 1965 (May 20 2017 21:35:58)
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Hi, I saw some of them listed for 800 Euro (or less) and other guitars listed for 1500. I'd say 1000 euro can be a reasonable price, given the guitar is in good condition. As Robje pointed out, yours is a studio guitar but still one of those made in the Conde Workshop in Madrid. Up to '64 the green label mentioned that the workshop was based in Madrid, Calle Pozuelo de Alarcon, where 5 people used to work. The workshop was in the same building where Juliana Conde Pastor and Faustino used to live. Two models were made there: the cheapest had a rounder shaped headstock and often a 3 pieces back, while the more expensive one, had a heastock still shaped like as in the Estesos. Later the green label mentioned the 2 shops (Gravina and Atocha) and not anymore the workshop. Beside that, the Condes used to sell guitars hand made but not signed (2nd class guitars). These guitars have the regular yellowish label and you can find them with 2 kind of headstocks, either media luna (half moon shaped) or Esteso. In the first case the guitar is indistinguishable from the regular 1st class but for some minor blemishhes, in the second case the guitar was probably made with cheaper materials. Anyway, some of these guitars were poorly made but the general consensus is that often they were very good sounding.
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