[Joshua Swick]

I have recently acquired a guitar and cant find anything about it anywhere on the internet no matter what I do. I'm callen on all you guitar heads to help me atleast find out who to talk to so i can find out what its worth on the open market. I dont even know how desirable it would be to anyone because it doesnt seem to exist. I have a 1956 Harmony uno-tone flat top model h40 serial number 3857 and all i know is its rare and hardly ever seen. i also have a stella harmony st39nt that i cant even date. do any of you have any info for me?

[Crawdaddy]

I can tell you that the 1956 Harmony uno-tone cost $74.50 in 1956. What it's worth now I don't know.

http://harmony.demon...del.php?id=122#

Couldn't find any info on the Stella.

[ninjato]

Sears and Roebuck guitars.

[Joshua Swick]

I can tell you that the 1956 Harmony uno-tone cost $74.50 in 1956. What it's worth now I don't know.

http://harmony.demon...del.php?id=122#

Couldn't find any info on the Stella.

Yah i went to the harmony web page also and no its no help on the stella at all is it? i got that one for twenty buks at a yard sale. i am thinking that it is a 70's model. I couldn't pass it up. ask around if you can and see if anyone can point me in the right direction. I'm gonna check out your home page and listen to some of your tunes man. thanks for taking the time to respond that was cool of you.

Sears and Roebuck guitars.

I will check that out right now thanks for the pointer

[Joshua Swick]

Sears and Roebuck guitars.

yah all that did was take me to the harmony database. I know it was 74.50 in 1956 i need to know its value today not only price wise but also how collectable it is and judging by no one on this planet being able to tell me ###### about it other then the two paragraphs on the harmony site i am pretty sure it is quite rare indeed. antiques road show is even having a hard time telling me anything. If you come across anything else drop me a line. Thanks

[expaceks73]

Hi

Im from Montreal and I would not missed the Montreal Guitar Show for anything

Is there a chance to meet any of you there?

[dadfad]

There was a member here in this forum from Montreal, Skunkx (Matt), but he hasn't been around for several months.

[ninjato]

Sears and Roebuck guitars.

yah all that did was take me to the harmony database. I know it was 74.50 in 1956 i need to know its value today not only price wise but also how collectable it is and judging by no one on this planet being able to tell me ###### about it other then the two paragraphs on the harmony site i am pretty sure it is quite rare indeed. antiques road show is even having a hard time telling me anything. If you come across anything else drop me a line. Thanks

I hate to say it, but it's not worth that much. Just because it is old doesn't mean it's worth anything. Yeah, the antique guitar market is "focusing" on these but it's not like you'll get $100k for it.

[dadfad]

Old fifties Harmony guitars are becoming a bit collectible, but not extremely valuable. There are three points in any guitar's value (or any potentially collectible object for that matter). Age, rarity and desirability. All three have to be there to make it valuable and those guitars pretty much lack the desirability-thing to collectors. Its biggest value is probably to custom luthiers. Old quality wood is getting hard to find. Often old moderately-priced guitars (assuming they're made of solid woods and it's in good condition) are bought by luthiers merely to disassemble to use the top-wood in the construction of a new guitar. Often old wood on an old moderately priced guitar is better than most top-woods available today. (Especially woods like red or Adirondack spruce, etc.) It's possible you could get as much as two hundred for it if it's in extremely nice condition and (big "and") you can find someone willing to pay that much for it.

So Ninjato is pretty much right. "Old" or "rare" in and of itself isn't enough to make a guitar valuable. There has to be a high demand-factor. I often buy old guitars I like. (I have sixty-odd guitars.) If it was in extremely nice condition and you offered it to me for a hundred dollars, in all likelihood I'd pass on it.