I bring to your interest that 51 years old Rose Morris 1993/12 s/n ED530 (April 1965).
A friend of the owner, who was given the guitar as a present in the mid-90s, posted about it a few days ago on the Rickenbacker general topic of a french guitar-related forum.
As you can see on the pics, it is not in a very good shape, but it seems not to suffer any structural damage, and the poster, who was given the opportunity to play it, wrote that the neck is very straight and the action low without any buzz.
It has been refinished over and over a few times, at least twice (blue & bordeaux), converted to a 6-stringer with the machine heads and the bridge removed for some unknown third-party replacements, the upper pickguard is missing, etc.
Pretty bad job...
Informations collected over the Internet show that very few guitars of this model have been produced from July 1964 through 1965, maybe less than a hundred.
22 remaining examples are registered here by their owners for year 1964 and 12 for 1965 (Pete Townshend has destroyed a few ones a while ago...
).Can you please tell us more about that model, production facts and figures, remaining examples, etc. ? Or anything to say about what you see on the photos.
Its current or potential value is not the most important thing, as the current owner doesn't want to sell it and does want to give it a decent second life.
Maybe do you know some highly skilled luthiers in Europe able to do a proper job on that very rare instrument that deserves only the best treatment ?
Thank you for your answers.
