Sold, sold and for sale again...
Antigua probably isn't everyone's favourite Fender colour. When this 1967/8 Coronado was listed on the website of Ormskirk dealer Sound Effects, back in 2022, they had a job to shift it. The price was finally hacked down to £2699. I saw it myself at this price and briefly thought about buying it to sell on. Perhaps I should have done so – when the guitar appeared again, a few months later. and at a different dealer, it was marked up to a whopping £4,499, a figure it has no chance of achieving in the current economic climate, when sales of vintage guitars are, let's be frank here, flatlining. It's verifiably the same instrument, from the wear pattern on the headstock, and the checking on the body. I recognised it immediately, because as a sometime collector of vintage guitars, I make it my business to know every instrument on the UK market, mainly because I don't like getting ripped off. Today, it was back again, this time listed at Richtone in Sheffield, who'...
