Just watched one of those silly set-up programmes about Pawn Shops in USA, and a guy came in with a Fender Strat from, he said, 1952, but the date on the body said 54.
Got me thinking about the over 200,000 Strats alone which were made in the 60s. Then all the other Fenders, Gibsons, Rickenbackers etc etc.
Where did they all disappear to? It's not something you would throw away or burn, yet so very few seem to surface.
OK, old cars rot away and are crushed or are crashed.