Help identify an autograph on the outside of a case.

[Linus]

I just got a 2009 R9 from Mark's Guitar Loft. (THANKS MARK!) I'll post pics of it when I get the chance.

It has a signature in gold sharpie on the outside of the case. The story of it was unclear.

Does anyone recognize it??

 

[musicmaniac]

Jimmy Page?

 

[jlb32]

Definitely looks like a Jimmy Page silkscreen autograph.

 

[strat1701]

yup. Silkscreen Page autograph. My guess is that case was for one of the BB Page Customs.

 

[Linus]

I love this forum. It must have been for a Jimmy Page model.

Thanks guys. I searched for a listing and found a match on Reverb.

 

[rockstar232007]

Great score!

 

[Midnight Blues]

Nice! Congrats, HNGD and play her in good health!

 

[THDNUT]

Uhmmm....Slash?

 

[rich85]

Beautiful guitar and what a great bonus case!

 

[Linus]

Thanks!! I think I'm going to send it down to Historic Makeovers.

 

[slither]

So does this mean that someone has one of the JP Customs Shop models without the correct case?

 

[ctkarslake]

So does this mean that someone has one of the JP Customs Shop models without the correct case?

...and yours is NOT a Jimmy Page model Linus?

I thought that only Guitar Center switched up cases, but now I see it can happen anywhere.

 

[dangerdog]

That case is worth about 2X what a normal case is worth...you might want to flip it. Maybe more, there are JPs out there missing cases and the owners really, really want the right one.

 

[Linus]

I don't know where the guitar was originally purchased. The switch might have happened then (it's a 2009 guitar and a 2009 case) or it might have happened later? Maybe someone owned multiple historics and wasn't paying attention when they sold one later. (That doesn't sound likely).

Anyway... For the moment I'm having too much fun just playing the hell out of this guitar (I love it) to worry about the case. I'll sort that out later.

 

[joff]

One of those JP hardcases sold for £300 here in the UK about a year or so ago...that is about $450 with the present exchange rate.

 

[cybermgk]

It's my autograph. You have my guitar, send it back.

 

[toymaker]

Ok...what is it with '09 R8s and JP cases.

At first I thought the OP may have acquired this R8:

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/mem...-2009-r8-tobacco-burst-w-jimmy-page-case.html

However, it clearly isn't tobacco burst. So either the seller of that particular R8 swapped cases with another R8, or there are at least 2 guitars (coincidentally both '09 R8s), that got JP cases.

Wasn't the JP run a few years earlier than '09? I can't imagine guitar center ruined 2 JPs by losing their cases. Possible someone at Gibson or just used excess JP cases to replace damaged originals?

Interesting that this has happened before it seems. Personally, I wouldn't pay a premium for a faux autograph on a case, but to each their own.

 

[HeadCase]

I have one too. I thought these only came w/ the JP BB.
Can anyone confirm?

It's where my '57 BB goes to rest now.

The ebay seller I got it from listed it as a "Les Paul
autographed case".

 

[duaneflowers]

It's pretty rare that a case like that is separated from its guitar... I passed on a Pearly Gates a while back because it didn't have the original case (according to the owner it was stolen during a brief stay in San Francisco). I was eyeballing another one at the same time with the original case for the same price that looked and played pretty much the same... so it was a no brainer.

It could've been a Guitar Center (or store) mixup... but my guess is that it was stolen.

 

[SickAgain]

Some sold a fire damaged LP with this case about 4 months ago on Ebay