Sold Gorgeous and Rare Two Sided Guild Custom Shop M90 - M70 Brochure Dealer Price Sheet

[Guildedagain]

This is probably by now a pretty rare piece of paper, especially if you worship at the altar of these unique Guild guitars in even more unique and bold colors.

Fortune favors the bold. Or so said the ancient Romans.

It is is very very good condition. There was some mild 20 year old frothy latte staining (how a propos for the 90's ;] at the edge of the M70 side of the paper, which I carefully lifted with a damp paper towel. It looks very very nice. What a gorgeous ad for even more gorgeous guitars.

Now how to display both sides at the same time?

I'm going to put $50 securely USPS Priority shipped on this, PPal with fees please so I can generate a label. This is from a former Guild dealers stash, never previously offered. May be even rare than I think. Hurry if you want it, one of one available anywhere that I can see. I can't even find a picture of another. It's a little on the wide side, sticks out of magazines about an inch.

Minor old stains can be seen on the edge of the page, the biggest right above Guild guitars. Somebody was probably drinking a latte, saw the price and choked ;]

Man that Seafoam M70 just kills, drool, drool.

 

[walrus]

I don't think I've ever seen an actual blue one like that! Cool stuff!

walrus

 

[SFIV1967]

I don't think I've ever seen an actual blue one like that!

Agreed. While they are the same as pictured in the year 2000 catalog I also can't remember "real" pictures of a Cayman Blue M-90.

2nevets once had a rare Catalina Blue "M-90 lookalike" M-70 from mid of 1999 which Hans explained was a Summer NAMM 1999 model before the M-90 model name even existed. So that was the "prototype" of the M-90 so to say. Unfortunatelly no pictures anymore...

Ralf

 

[Guildedagain]

Sold to GAD at a better price for archival, for everyone ;]

Yeah, those guitars are stunners. It's interesting how interesting Guild stayed while Gibson and Fender just cranked out the same old same old, but not as good as old.

What's a mint Seafoam M70 worth now? I'm guessing original price plus inflation?

Haha, Daphne Blue, Fiesta Red, Seafoam Green, those are Fender colors. Did Fender own Guild at this point?

I just realized I don't even know how old this brochure is, what year is this from?

 

[SFIV1967]

Haha, Daphne Blue, Fiesta Red, Seafoam Green, those are Fender colors. Did Fender own Guild at this point? I just realized I don't even know how old this brochure is, what year is this from?

Sure they did! Those guitars came out in 1999 in the Custom Shop in Nashville, the picture I posted was from the 2000 catalog. The M-70 was first shown in the Guild Gallery July-December 1999 and as Hans said, the "M-70 with M-90 features" was shown at Summer NAMM 1999 in Nashville.
So I'd guess those two promo sheets were probably made for Winter NAMM 2000.
The 3rd and last model in that series was the limited M-95 with SD P-90s and Bluesbird hardware which was never shown in any catalogs and was produced in 2000 and 2001 and only 12 of them were made and all in this transparent brown color with semi quilted mahogany tops (all marked x of 12). The below is 11/12:

Ralf