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A purchase can sometimes have an unexpected collateral component.

Let’s say you know a lady who is a fan of Charlie’s Angels.  Especially Kate Jackson’s ‘Sabrina’ character.  On the program, Sabrina drove the much-maligned Ford PINTO automobile.  You are at a local library used-book sale and you pick up a copy of the Ford repair manual for this car.

It turns out that the book has an undisclosed bonus-feature which may/may-not enhance the driving experience.

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One of the more interesting aspects of buying cheap old guitars is the odd bits and bobs that are in the guitar cases along with the instrument.

This point was brought into sharp focus this weekend when I realized that I had purchased a 1950’s Harmony tenor guitar largely due to the antique capo that was on the guitar’s neck.

A ‘Sid Kleiner’-branded Kay guitar from yesterday’s flea market contained some old bank drafts, songbooks, and obscure picks.

I wonder if I have gone off the ‘deep-end.’  But then I remember…  one Will Hoover actually had a book published on some of this folky flotsam.  A book which I bought.  Shit.

Occasionally, a guitar case will contain the original sales pamphlet and/or retail-hang-tags that accompanied the instrument at the time of purchase.  These can sometimes prove to be valuable, selling for between $10 and $5000 (if you happen to find a 1950s Les Paul guitar).

Nonetheless, my favorite random case-finds are antique string packages.  As graphic-design pieces, they reveal a lot about how the guitar manufacturers positioned their instruments and their consumers.  Here is a quick survey of some old packages that I have come across in the past few years.

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