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Author Message Mrwood Username: Mrwood Registered: 11-2005 Posted on Friday, November 04, 2005 - 8:15 pm:    Hi there. You guys seem to know your stuff so please help! I bought an Ibanez bass on ebay the other day and would love some more information on it... well as much as possible really. What I can tell you is that it bears a plate on the headstock which reads "Artist" (could be artist series then!) and that the serial number on the back of the headstock is J766428. The bass has 2 pick ups, 2 volume and one tone knob, pick up toggle switch and what I believe to be an ash body. No scratch plate or anything like that. Can anyone let me know when this was made, how good it's reckoned to be and have a guess at a value? > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7360613532&rd=1&sspagename= STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 Hopefully the pics can be viewed from the above link... if not I shall attempt to load them up later. Thanks a lot, Andy Johns Username: Johns Registered: 02-2001 Posted on Saturday, November 05, 2005 - 2:59 pm:    Andy: We've seen a couple of these very cool Artist basses. The documentation is very skimpy, if not non-existent. It's mentioned in the 1977 Price List (US) as: 2626B Artist II Bass, Ash Body------>$450.00 I got a picture of one at a recent guitar show outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Dealer was Olivia's Vintage. Here's the picture I took. They subsequently had it up on ebay. Can't remember if it was sold or not. They put lots of great pictures on the Ibanez Register website. Check it out: http://www.ibanezregister.com/Gallery/basses/artist/gal-2626b.htm Mr. Ibanez (Orval to us ICW members) owns one. Here's a link to his site: http://www.mr-ibanez.com/ Hope this helps.

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