Thanks David, I'll check that out. Yeah, I thought the only way to get a good idea about their value was to bring them to someone who could appraise them. Unfortunately, I can't remove the guitars from their existing place of residence at the moment. It's a odd set of circumstances. Being that I don't know a guitar appraiser in New England I'll have to speak to someone cold...pretty much pick-up the phone book and see who I can find. I wanted to at least have some kind of idea first of what I'm dealing with. The whole collection, I haven't seen all of it, is pre 1970. There are six or eight Martins, including a couple of 60's guitars I thought were incredible. Plus there are some electrics, Fender, Gibson, and some odd ball stuff I'm not that familiar with. Maybe 14 to 18 guitars in all.

The hope is that the guitars don't have to be sold but there's that dreaded prospect of legal wrangling looming on the horizon. Figure it's best to know what's what before the brown stuff hits the fan.