An extremely rare Herrnsdorf, mid century modern, space age electric guitar.
I was told many years ago by the European collector that sold me this guitar that it was made sometime between 1958-1960, putting its manufacture in the first few years of the space age and the race for space. It was made in the DDR, behind the iron curtain, in “communist Germany”. its design reflects the deco style, the mid century modern retro style and that early “science fiction” space age, robot, look!
This guitar is only one of a very few surviving examples and undoubtedly the best and most complete. The case is filled with its period accessories; a blue sparkle foot switch, some type of effects foot switch, cables, adapters, original leather strap, literature, picks and strings, etc. Its original case is in excellent condition. The guitar is a beautiful deep blue sparkle with the famous early DDR Rellog Gitona pickups. The pick guard is perfect with no cracks and it has all the original knobs and original tremolo bar! The neck is a 3 piece solid mahogany laminate. It is approaching baseball fat. The all metal strip tuners are all excellent. Overall guitar is in excellent, vintage, untouched condition, exactly the way I bought it many years ago. I have not had a chance to get to it, but did fix its broken leather handle by adding a brass support strap that encircles the leather, leaving the original leather fully intact when I first got it.
Guitar will need a through cleaning. There is finger muck all along the fretboard, some light tarnish and some light metal oxidation. The electronics will need a through going over (cleaning) and the guitar will need to be set up. As I said, I have not gotten to it and have done absolutely nothing to it. When I bought it I did plug in the guitar and the electronics did function.
All that being said….guitar is an EXTREME RARITY, one of the rarest retro guitars in existance and is being sold “as is” as a RARE, museum worthy, collector piece.
Price is firm.
Thanks for looking!

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