500'000$++ guitars stolen! [Italy]

[George Necola]

In the night between oct 4th and 5th, 103 vintage instruments (see list) were stolen in Italy, in the store of Perpaolo Adda (Guitar Ranch, Verona).

Pls keep your eyes open and kindly report any appearances to
Pierpaolo Adda: pierpaolo at guitaranch dot com.

Mods - could you make this sticky?

Thx

Paul Weber


FENDER


Telecaster 1952 Butterscotch 4095 exc.
Telecaster 1968 Oc.Turqoise 233427 exc.
Telecaster 1969 Sunburst 263088 Bigsby exc.
Telecaster 1969 Pink Paisley 248219 VG++
Telecaster J.Burton 1992 Bl.Paisley N2 922165 James's autograph and
dedication Exc.++
Stratocaster 1965 Torino Red L85285 exc.
Telecaster Nokie Edwards Ltd.Edition 1996 Transparent Yellow 0023 Nokie's
autograph and dedication Mint
Stratocaster 1964 Foam Green L50716 VG++
Stratocaster 1954 Ann. Custom Shop Limited Ed. 2004 Two-tone Sunburst 4017
Bill Carson's autograph on scratchplate Mint
Jaguar 1964 Sunburst L52356 exc.+
Stratocaster 1966 Sunburst 168999 Excellent
Telecaster 1968 Olympic White 234015 BigsbyExcellent
Stratocaster 1965 Fiesta Red L94250 Excellent-
Jazzmaster 1968 Olympic White157024 Golden hardware matching peghead
Excellent
Stratocaster 1994 Blue Marble N517603 Aluminum body Excellent+
Jaguar 1963 Dakota Red L01540 Matching peg-head Excellent
Jaguar 1966 Candy Apple Red 183708 Matching peg-head Excellent
Stratocaster 1965 Olympic White L67833 Excellent
Jazzmaster 1963 Sunburst L31282 excellent-
Electric-XII 1967Sunburst 136735 very good+
Stratocaster 1966 Sunburst 188197 excellent-
Stratocaster 1964 Sunburst L44016 Clay dots - transition logo excellent-
Stratocaster 1966 Candy Apple Red 166574 Excellent
Stratocaster 1973 Natural 369402 Excellent
Mustang 1968 Daphne Blue 241701 Excellent
Telecaster Thinline1968 Natural 226739 Mahogany body excellent-
Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix style! 1970 Sunburst 3030254 bolts-"with
synchronized tremolo" excellent-
Stratocaster 1987 Olympic White E768690 left handed - made in Japan
Excellent
Telecaster 1968 Sunburst 249519 Excellent
Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix style! 1969 Sunburst 2918904 bolts-"with
synchronized tremolo" excellent-
Stratocaster 1965 Sunburst L72240 a repair around the bridge pickup cavity -
everything else is O.K.Very good++
Telecaster 60's/70's Black 250423'68 neck on 70's body Very good+
StratocasterJ imi Hendrix style! 1970 Sunburst 2748744 bolts-"with
synchronized tremolo" all solder joints untouched Excellent+
Stratocaster 1971 Sunburst 322643 Four bolts - autographed by Luther Allison
Excellent
Stratocaster 1966 Sunburst 169064 Excellent
Stratocaster 1966 Sunburst 165688 Excellent
Stratocaster 1966 Sunburst 166453 Excellent
Stratocaster 1966 Sunburst 171863 Excellent-
Stratocaster 1974 Sunburst 528302 Dedicated and autographed by Stefano ("Le
Vibrazioni") Excellent
Stratocaster 1974 Black 555353 Non tremolo Excellent
Telecaster 1968 Blonde 240821 Bigsby Excellent
Mustang Competition 1971 Candy Apple Red 327292 Excellent
Jaguar 1965 Sunburst L95996 Excellent
Stratocaster Jan 1958 Two tone sunburst 023138 Bakelite parts! Excellent
Stratocaster 1990 Olympic White SE 90 1177 Autograph and "Play loud!" by
Yngwie Malmsteen and his band Near mint
Stratocaster Dodi Battaglia model prototipe1997 Sky blue A 030131
Autograph and dedication by Dodi Battaglia Excellent+
StratocasterZ.A.I. Verona model 2003 Black 02/60 Mint
Stratocaster 1971 Black 322146 Excellent+
Stratocaster 1964 Sunburst L21569 Excellent
Stratocaster Hank Marvin model 1996 Fiesta RedB002813Made in Japan Mint
Stratocaster 1982 Black E 212410 Excellent

GIBSON


GIBSON Byrdland 1965 Sunburst 346329 Very good+
GIBSON Byrdland 1963 sunburst 61657 Excellent+ Later Gibson hard case
GIBSON L5S 1980 natural 81680021 Excellent+
GIBSON Byrdland 1963 sunburst 61657 Excellent ex Roy Clark
GIBSON ES 350 T 1957 natural A25469 Excellent P.A.F. p.u.'s
GIBSON ES 320TD 1972 natural 970372 Excellent non orig. Kluson tuners
GIBSON Les Paul De Luxe1975cherry sunburst99-123383Excellent+
GIBSON L.P.Custom 1978 Black 73548604 Excellent ex Pino Daniele
GIBSON Melody Maker1960 sunburst 0-2018 Excellent replacement tuners
GIBSON L.P.Special 1960 cherry red0-5868 very good Ex Dodi Battaglia (POOH)
GIBSON Les Paul De Luxe1971 cherry sunburst 120111 Near mint
GIBSON Firebird III riverse1964 sunburst 228870 Excellent
GIBSON Firebird III non riverse1968 sunburst 887900 Excellent-
GIBSON L.P.Custom1972 cherry s/b 770430 Excellent Grover tuners
GIBSON L.P.Custom 1971 Black 957126 Excellent
GIBSON L.C. Custom 1971 Black 922853 Excellent-Grover tuners
GIBSON L.P. Custom 1976 tobacco s/b00-115756 Excellent
GIBSON L.P.Standard 1978 Wine red 70458505 Excellent
GIBSON L.P.Standard 1980 Natural 80030612 Excellent
GIBSON L.P. 25/50 1979 Black 70829035 - 3000 Excellent Very rare finish
GIBSON L.P.Standard 1976 wine red 00-236139 Excellent
GIBSON SG Melody Maker1967 black ref.003481 Excellent
GIBSON B.B.KING Lucille 2000 Black 02580531 Excellent+Ex Francesco Sarcina
("Le Vibrazioni")
GIBSONSG Special 1971 Cherry red 957789 Very good+ Ex Pino Daniele
GIBSON L.P.Standard 1979 Tabacco sunburst 80280556 Very good+ Ex Maurizio
Solieri
GIBSON L.P.Standard 1989 Cherry sunburst 81729567 Excellent Autographed by
Jimmy Page (Name and Zoso)
GIBSON L.P.Custom1971 Cherry sunburst 728650 Excellent
GIBSON L.P. De Luxe1979 Gold top 72899605 Excellent-
GIBSON L.P.Custom 1971 Black 126365 Excellent
GIBSON Firebird III Riverse1964 Sunburst 212542 Excellent+
GIBSON L.P. De Luxe1979 Wine Red 72976585 Excellent+

OTHER SOLIDBODIES

RICKENBACKER 355JL 1991 black G4-6949 Excellent ex Ron
RICKENBACKER 330 1980 black A1-9867 Excellent ex Omar Pedrini (Timoria)
SILVERTONE 1448 early 60'sblack// Very good Ex "Capitan Fede" Poggipollini
GRETSCH 6120 C.Atkins 1956 western orange 20832 Excellent ex Bryan Adams

ACOUSTIC

NATIONALStyle OEarly 30'sNickelplateS5143Very good+


BASSES


FENDER P.bass 1966 sunburst 190906 Excellent+
GIBSONEB 2D 1968 cherry 309325 Excellent-
FENDER Jazzbass Early '68 sunburst 215288 excellent
GIBSON EB 219 69 sunburst 904805 Excellent++
FENDER P.bass 1968 sunburst 274264 Excellent
FENDER P.bass 1965 sunburst L99286 excellent
FENDER Jazzbass 1974 black 548892 excellent
FENDER P.bass1966 sunburst 147495 excellent
EKO Violin bass (995) mid sixtieslight brown 349275 Excellent+
GIBSON EB01968 cherry red 904805 Excellent+
FENDER Jazz bass1978 sunburst S8847816 excellent
FENDER Jazz bass1973 sunburst 361406 excellent
FENDER P.bass1978 natural S861969 excellent
FENDER Jazz bass1978 Olympic White S843185 excellent
FENDER P.bass 1969 Sunburst 292329 excellent
FENDER Jazzbass 1964 Olympic White L57191 Excellent
__________________

[Reag1502]

GOOD GOD! That's terrible! How could something like that happen? Best of luck getting all of them back.

[George Necola]

just to clarify:D I dont own them, nor did I I just read it on another board and posted it here

[Tibbon]

Christ. I hope those people get caught. That's just too many hot guitars to NOT get caught.

That's like robbing a bank of guitars! I'm GUESSING that a job like that... that someone paid the guy(s) to steal them for a single buyer that wanted them.

[3rdeyeKnight]

Sick, sad world sometimes man. I just dont know how thieves could live with that on their conscious. It's like what goes around, comes around. There's no way you can live your life in peace after you've pulled off some bogus stunt like that! Justice will be served one way or another. Believe that! I had to get that off my chest. I feel for the owner(s). Peace.

[chandlersonic]

That list is like a list of all the best guitars ever made. I hope they find these guys.

[Vandergraf]

Bad Karma!

[Pasta4lnch]

ZOINKS!! That's terrible. . .

sounds like it was a cool store though!!

[Arsene]

They did know what to look for didn't they...

[Tynan]

sorry about your theft. amazing gear....man that is one heck of a tragedy.

i will keep an eye out when i shop for guitars on those serial #s.

all the best.

[skygod]

Paul-

wow. either the surveillance system sucked or must have been some clever wise guy crew that figured out how to bypass secuity. the local sheriff and deputies are gonna have fun scouring the pawn shops, assuming of course that the have pawn shops in italy. these won't get far if sold locally, as the italian carbineri are a pretty tough bunch, unless of course these are shunted to eastern europe or to africa or asia then all bets are off. if the latter is the case, hope you were insured by lloyds of london.

i also recommend you also contact the following us/international federal cyber crime unit and file a complaint on line with all losses makes/models and serial numbers. i have use the service before and they are very very good -- connected to interpol etc. just in case these find their way to the usa. also contact interpol directly.

http://complaint.ic3.gov

[The IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 aims to give the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism.

Complaint Status
The IC3 receives thousands of complaints each month and does not have the resources to respond to inquiries regarding the status of complaints. It is the IC3's intention to review all complaints and refer them to law enforcement and regulatory agencies having jurisdiction. Ultimately, investigation and prosecution are at the discretion of the receiving agencies.

Evidence
It is important that you maintain any evidence you may have relating to your complaint. Evidence may include canceled checks, credit card receipts, phone bills, mailing envelopes, mail receipts, a printed copy of a website, copies of emails, or similar items. Please keep the items in a safe location, in case you are requested to provide them for investigative purposes.


Additionally, to learn more about Internet schemes and ways to protect yourself, please visit lookstoogoodtobetrue.com

kind regards and good luck on the recovery -





!skygod!

[wyndrock]

oh man. that stuff is worth more than any monetary value you could ever place on it.

as long as he filed a police report they'll help him find it, providing it wasn't the police that stole the guitars. certainly there was insurance on the instruments. if not, then that's bad.

barring the owner being involved in a fake heist, there's going to be news about this to follow. something like this just doesn't happen without someone screwing up somewhere along the line.

was this a well documented story, or is it just something that someone sent you in an email? i never heard about it. i deal in guitars and pro audio. no mention of it, ever.

[HEADROOM]

Sure hope they were insured.......jeeeez, but it wont bring m back....



www.nickoosterhuis.com

[Tidewater]

If they come back, I'd be interested in the 70 strat.

I've only had one stolen, outright. Whew.


M

[ColourSurround]

Man, I really really hope that this place had some serious insurance, how so many guitars can get nicked is, well I honestly don't even know how they orchestrated making off with so many of them. It had to be planned, and planned well. Insider likesay.

Anyhow, I guess checking sites like eBay or other auction sites would be as good a start as any with hopes that after such a well devised robbery the thieves are stupid enough to try to sell these guitar on the mass market!

[fontenele]

this thread makes me wanna f****** cry everytime I look at it. **** !

[George Necola]

is there any update?

[pan60]

i hate thief's

[Uncle GroOve]

No news as far as I'm concerned...
Security has been beefed up @ the stores I usually visit (those who have the sluttiest schtuff, that is).

Problm w/ insurance coverage is that the insureance Co. will try every rule in the book to avoid paying the claim such as asking for all the original invoices... main hassle in Italy, where everybody tries very hard to settle everything under the radar.... ahem.

You get the idea....

[malaclypse]

italy, right? fuggetaboudit. mafia job. someone forgot to pay protection... those guitars will never be seen again just my uneducated theory...

[Chrizcol]

Grow up mafia boy ^


Check eBay or similar for those serial numbers i say?

[malaclypse]

Originally Posted by Chrizcol

Grow up mafia boy ^


Check eBay or similar for those serial numbers i say?

fuuck
so you're suggesting there's no possibility of organized crime involvement? are you suggesting that it was some one-off amateur job(which could be possible)? are you also saying that these people, who so successfully pulled off such a heist, are dense enough to sell these items on "eBay or similar"? that's pretty naive thinking. especially from someone who presumes to advise me to "grow up."
now, i realize that they could've sold one of these instruments to someone who might then put it up for sale on eBay, but it seems unlikely to me. people who buy items of questionable legality are usually aware of the nature of their purchase. perhaps after changing hands a few times, a couple of these items might end up at a pawn shop or on e-bay, but by then, the original theives have long since faded into the background.
mafia involvement does not seem out of the question to me(they apparently still run rampant in italy), unless you believe that they don't exist. maybe they're just an old wives' tale used to frighten children. to this humble observer(myself), skepticism for skepticism's sake is just as ridiculous as believing for believing's sake. i think people resort to dogmatic skepticism as a clumsy attempt to appear more intelligent than they are. (perhaps this very post is a clumsy attempt for me to appear more intelligent that i am. i never said i was perfect LOL)
the theory in my original post was simply one of many possible explanations for this crime. in no way, was i preaching it as fact. it was actually more of a joke... an excuse to use the term "fuggetaboutit."
i'm gonna go and grow up now. perhaps with a bit of luck and lots of study, i'll grow up to be as wise as the venerable Chrizcol

[theevildrpat]

soo..um where on the black market can I buy these?tutt

[videoteque]

If you want to learn about the new mafia: Beppe Grillo will told you everything you want to know

This robbery has possibly been comissioned by someone with a lot of money and very little ethics. Take notice that booth things seem to live together very happily!!!

[BetterOffDad]

lol...this thing probably shouldn't be a sticky. The '78 Jazz Bass up there belonged to my bass player 15 years ago; it was stolen out of the back of a club in Nacogdoches, Texas when we were gigging in college, and I HIGHLY doubt the thing ever ended up in Italy.

More likely, somebody has scoured the internet for stolen instruments (my bass player posted his information several places throughout the years on the net) in the hopes that one of them will turn up and a good Samaritan will "return" the stolen instrument to its "rightful" owner.

It's just a guess, but I can't find any news stories relating to that theft. I think it's a crock.

[theGeek]

Originally Posted by BetterOffDad

lol...this thing probably shouldn't be a sticky. The '78 Jazz Bass up there belonged to my bass player 15 years ago; it was stolen out of the back of a club in Nacogdoches, Texas when we were gigging in college, and I HIGHLY doubt the thing ever ended up in Italy.

More likely, somebody has scoured the internet for stolen instruments (my bass player posted his information several places throughout the years on the net) in the hopes that one of them will turn up and a good Samaritan will "return" the stolen instrument to its "rightful" owner.

It's just a guess, but I can't find any news stories relating to that theft. I think it's a crock.

I agree. It very well could have been a list of all the missing instruments. That's a lot of merchandise to move overnight. You can't exactly throw a strat in your pocket now can you?

[Screaming Stone]

The sad fact is - over 1 million music instruments are stolen every year in the US and less than 2% are recovered and returned to the owner. I've been posting stolen instrument notices since Sept. 07 - since then we have helped recover over $100,000 in stolen gear - not that I found any of it - rather its been other musicians seeing my posts and seeing the stolen gear being sold somewhere. Please take a look at the list of stolen instruments on any of these sites:
SCREAMING STONE - STOLEN MUSIC INSTRUMENT LIST - BEFORE YOU BUY USED MAKE SURE IT'S NOT STOLEN!! (the main site)
Harmony Central Harmony Central Musician Community Forums
The Gear Page: The Gear Page - Powered by vBulletin
Guitar Trade: Guitar Forum • Index page
Ultimate Guitar UG Community @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com - powered by vBulletin
Guitar Forum: .:Guitar Forum:.
Myspace.com/screamingstone (I post bulletins and blogs)

I'd like to also start posting the stolen instrument notices on this site, however I have not heard back from the admins.

Spread the word - the more people seeing the stolen instrument notices the better chance we have at getting the stolen gear back into the hands of the musicians.

[esaias]

Oh my god! What a fort knox of guitars has been looted!

Although this has happened some ago, reading that makes me feel almost as sad when the Sonic Youth's truck with majority of their instruments was stolen.

is there something wrong in me if I find news like this more shocking than your average daily war/violence news?

-Tomi

[guitardom]

this is totally disgusting

i hope karma or an upset god takes care of these heartless pricks!

[coheed56]

these suckers are probably on ebay right now