Value Of Grand Vox Accordion

[carolmccomb]

Any baseball fans out there who play accordion? I bought a Columbo Grand Vox accordion at an estate sale a few year's ago that was owned by Jim Fregosi of baseball fame (the estate sale was at his parents' home in the town where I live in Calif). It's a 120 bass accordion with muzette. I had it tuned and rewaxed. It's a really neat instrument, but I'm thinking of selling it because I'm not playing it. I have no idea what it's worth and if "Jimmy Fregosi" written across the piano key side in big silver letters makes it more valuable or not.

[hielandman]

There are two things that you can do so you can get an idea. The first is to go on ebay, and do a search of completed items that are similar, that should put you in the ball park(I keep reminding myself that the Mets traded Nolan Ryan and a bunch of minor league stars for Jim Fregosi in the fall of 1970, stop reminding me, PLEASE!), oh, where was I............you could also look under sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. The next thing you could do is to call Aldo, at Bell-Duovox accordians in Valley Cottage, N.Y.(845 are code, can't find the number right now), he deals with a lot of high end kind of stuff like that, he may be able to help. Good luck.