The Official Fender Mark Knopfler Stratocaster Owners' Club Thread

[JF]

and the sunburst schecter played by Ingo himself is Mark's one 

http://www.mk-guitar.com/2012/08/03/videos-from-a-trip-to-mark-knopflers-sunburst-schecter-strat/

[Holger_MK]

It was Mark

[Simon (formerley known as Simon)]

Hi - I took part in the MK guitar auction at Christies last year (Jan 2024) and bid on 2 of the 3 MK signature Fender Strats. The guide price was £4,000-6,000  yet they sold for £107,100, £113,400, and £126,000. Needless to say I was not successful.

However I have just acquired a 2006 MK Signature Strat S/N SE01728 which was owned by Mark and donated to a charity event in 2006. The scratch plate was also signed by him and it came with authenticity documentation (there are images available of MK playing it) as well as the original hard case. The guitar itself is in immaculate condition and (despite me not being a lover of Strats - maybe because I have never owned a quality one) it is the most beautiful guitar I have ever played. The sound is sooooooo Mark Knopfler (and so it should be given he helped design it).

My question is that given the prices the three above Strats sold for at auction is there any reason for this one to be worth any less?

By the way - I am not parting with it (just yet) as I need to insure it first.

[Love Expresso]

I hope you don't take it as a harsh comment but I guess the charity event guitars were almost everytime guitars with no history, just taken for the event while the three mentioned auctioned guitars were the "real deal" where he played on in private, at BG and on tour.  I often had a somewhat disgusted feeling when he donated a random guitar for charity, just as if he had found a good opportunity to get rid of it.

LE

[wayaman]

I hope you don't take it as a harsh comment but I guess the charity event guitars were almost everytime guitars with no history, just taken for the event while the three mentioned auctioned guitars were the "real deal" where he played on in private, at BG and on tour.  I often had a somewhat disgusted feeling when he donated a random guitar for charity, just as if he had found a good opportunity to get rid of it.

LE

Exactly.

In some cases, MK played the instrument once in a charity event, an instrument bought or brought in purpose for the event and auctioned at the end, so you get a signed guitar that MK never owned but played once.