25 Most valuable basses

[Truktek2]

http://www.vintageguitar.com/special...luable-basses/

The basses make me but the prices make me

Didn't realize Alembic was around that long

[Vince Klortho]

You should read the Alembic history if you have the time. It is very interesting. They were quiet the pioneers.

[Bongolation]

I have a nice #6 I got for $75 in around '71.

[hdracer]

That is some very inflated prices.
Someone can value them and price them like that but they will never sell.

[Munjibunga]

I give you the The Flora Aurum, a mere $250,000 at Wynn and Company Jewelers, Las Vegas, Nevada. The original price was $100,000.

[mjac28]

The most valuable bass is my first bass my Greco Beatles bass got it in the 60's.

[mindwell]

The article reminds me of why I chose not to renew my subscription to Vintage Guitar. When it comes to bass, they just don't get it.

[Doodaddy]

I've got a pretty obscure SX bass. Surely that counts for something and should be listed?

[Baird6869]

Originally Posted by mindwell

The article reminds me of why I chose not to renew my subscription to Vintage Guitar. When it comes to bass, they just don't get it.

+1.

I have been buying this magazine for years and when this list came out, I thought it was idiotic. Terribly researched.

Many of the brand new Fodera, Ritter and Carl Thompson models should have made the list on initial price alone.... But they give us a dozen or so Fenders and a few each of Gibson, RIC and Alembic.

This list is the equivalent of a top 25 most expensive guitar list that looks like this: Strat, Strat, Strat, Strat, Strat, Strat, Tele, Tele, Tele, Tele, Tele, Tele, Les Paul, Les Paul, Les Paul, Les Paul, Les Paul, Les Paul,Les Paul, ES335, SG, SG, SG, Broadcaster, Nocaster.

[Immigrant]

There was one of those Rics ('59?) on eBay not too long ago. I think it's been posted before and never sold because its like a $Billion buy it now.

[Bflat]

I wouldn't trade any one of my 7 1951 P basses for any one of the basses on that list, even though some of them are nice basses.......

[bootsox]

Originally Posted by Bflat

I wouldn't trade any one of my 7 1951 P basses for any one of the basses on that list, even though some of them are nice basses.......

if I had 7 of them I wouldn't mind trading one for a blue '60 Jazz or a blonde '58 P

[D Bopp]

So a 1968 Fender Telecaster bass made the list, but the '51-'56 Precisions didn't?

[lavmonga]

Originally Posted by hdracer

That is some very inflated prices.
Someone can value them and price them like that but they will never sell.

+1 If you take a look at ebay, some of these basses, even in great shape, don't even reach the lower of the estimated values on this site.

[woofdoggy]

No one remembers the mothman bass i guess?

[bassguitarthund]

Originally Posted by woofdoggy

No one remembers the mothman bass i guess?

Haunts my dreams!!!

[4001]

There are only three like this...

[JoeWPgh]

I would say the 2 most valuable basses are those two very famous and missing basses. Jamerson's P and Jaco's J.

[HaMMerHeD]

Jaco's J isn't missing.

And Fender is very much over-represented in that list.

[Boot Soul]

An Epiphone Embassy with the bat wing headstock is rarer than any of those Thunderbirds and had the same pickups and electronics and wood. And it looked cooler. It's a holy grail IMO.

http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/...ssy_Deluxe.php
http://www.halkans.com/images11/1550epiphone.jpg
http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/...e-cherry-1965/
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1964-Ep...p2047675.l2557