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basstard
Advanced Member
Username: basstard

Post Number: 253
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:10 am:   Edit Post

Herea are the links to 2 beauties offered on allegro.pl (sort of ebay competition):

http://www.allegro.pl/item454966783_gitara_alembic_model_excel_5.html
http://www.allegro.pl/item454963948_gitara_alembic_model_rogue_4.html

The problem is, the seller doesn't seem to have much of an idea about them (he listed them under electric guitars!) and won't provide serial numbers. There are also no papers. He says they were imported from Scandinavia. Therefore I would like to ask if there were Alembics like those 2 reported stolen in Northern Europe. I'm not considering buying any of them now but there seems to be something fishy about these auctions and I wouldn't want anyone to get into any trouble because of that...

Thanks in advance for your help!
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1973
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:16 am:   Edit Post

Definitely looks like the same instruments - Rogue 4 with wenge top and Excel 5 with canarywood.

It also says "SPROWADZONE ZE SKANDYNAWI" which apparently translates as "fetched from Scandinavia" - cheeky!
basstard
Advanced Member
Username: basstard

Post Number: 254
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:19 am:   Edit Post

It means "imported from Scandinavia" (btw, there's a spelling error - it should be "Skandynawii", with two i's - but that's a marginal remark).
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1974
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:27 am:   Edit Post

I sent an e-mail to Mica with the details, let's hope this gets sorted.

Best of luck with your own missing Alembic situation - your karma is in good standing.
basstard
Advanced Member
Username: basstard

Post Number: 255
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 6:31 am:   Edit Post

Thank you Adriaan! :-)
mica
Moderator
Username: mica

Post Number: 5642
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 8:02 am:   Edit Post

I've alerted my distributor in Norway. I'd appreciate it nobody contacted the sellers directly. Thanks for letting us know about this - this is exactly the kind of thing that will assist in recovery.
3rd_ray
Member
Username: 3rd_ray

Post Number: 96
Registered: 2-2008
Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008 - 10:26 am:   Edit Post

Good catch Jarek!

http://alembic.com/club/messages/403/56870.html?1222890350
basstard
Advanced Member
Username: basstard

Post Number: 256
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 4:47 am:   Edit Post

I've alerted the Polish police about it.

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