John Lennon's Guitar, Stolen 52 Years Ago, Turns Up in San Diego

NBC San Diego ^ | 6/10 | Gene Cubbison and Andie Adams

[nickcarraway]

[a fool in paradise]

So was it stolen?

“Went missing” and then wound up in a used gear shop.

The original owner/heirs don’t have a claim to it?

[South40]

South40's Gibson J-160E. It's in San Diego, too!

[M-cubed]

Hell...I got 2 guitars i bought from Eric Clapton in the 70s...drove all the way to 461 Ocean Blvd in Miami to get them....i just wish id got a receipt!

[Fungi]

“It helped that Lennon had played the guitar roughly, leaving behind marks as he slapped and strummed hard behind the strings.” Yet “McCaw’s friend and performing guitarist Marc Intravaia said McCaw paid great care to the guitar, making sure it was never damaged.” You cannot have it both ways.

[Pontiac]

The original owner/heirs don’t have a claim to it?.

I don’t know about Britain but in the US I think the statute of limitations ran out at least 40 years ago.

The thing I would like to know is how the guitar got from London, England to San Diego, California.

[BBell]

Watch out John McCaw, Yoko is coming after you.

[a fool in paradise]

I thought that the limitations apply to the crime of theft, but the object remains “owned” by the original owner.

Otherwise, in big art heists, you just warehouse a work for 40 years and take it to the auction houses, galleries, or private market and make your legal bank off it.

[a fool in paradise]

Establishing the provenance would be the big thing. Use facebook or twitter to see if EC would be willing to sign off a letter/receipt on them.

[a fool in paradise]

Alternatively, do as this owner did and scout for photos of the musician with the instrument.

[M-cubed]

i doubt he would...i paid him in coke...but i took a picture of his place and its on one of his albums.....I got 2 of those for sale too!...*W*

[dp0622]

you could have your choice of millions of women and this is what you pick?

[Pontiac]

I know you’re right about titled property like cars and boats, I can’t say about other property.

[Bigg Red]

And I think he’d say ‘I knew this guitar would come back now me.’....

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What? Is Lennon still doing drugs?

[Michael.SF.]

Yoko is coming after you.

If she starts singing to him, he will gladly give up the guitar

[Michael.SF.]

McCaw began to realize what he had.

This was shortly after a night of peyote and mescalin bliss during a red moon night in the mountains near Santa Fe. The guitar and I became one. It produced notes never heard before and when I played the notes backward it said:

I am johns.... I am Johns...we are one... and altogether now, I am the eggman... I am the walrus... koo koo ca choo

[nickcarraway]

Maybe Mark David Chapman will file to reclaim it.

[Daffynition]

[cynwoody]

Maybe Mark David Chapman will file to reclaim it.

Here's one sick link about two Japanese women:

http://nypost.com/2014/12/17/wife-opens-up-about-being-married-to-john-lennons-killer/

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And after some rube pays half a mill for it, what’s he going to realize? That he paid half a mill for a guitar he could have bought for $300 in any Music store.