Miscellaneous D'Andrea Vintage Picks
2 vintage rubber-grips
Beautiful 1930s 'cushion grip' celluloid(missing it's 'cushion' or rubber band!)
D'Andrea 21A(clear yellow)
D'A 21A vintage guitar pick(clear olive green)
D'Andrea 21A vintage guitar pick(brown)
Vintage D'A tortoise celluloid & white 24A('comma') picks
D'Andrea wide Heart guitar pick
HTF shaped(#347) vintage D'andrea
****The pick below was acquired from the great Joe Macey! He tells his story as such:
"There is a bit of interesting history to it', as Joe explains: "About 1996 as I was walking out of Whittaker Music in Long Beach, CA. this man was walking in. Briefly, he heard me talking to the proprietor about picks and said he had some I may be interested in. I arranged a meeting with him & purchased $300.00 worth of fine vintage pieces he had saved since the 1970s. As we concluded the deal, he offered me a few of his personal picks. That mystery man is "Tracy Sands" of Fullerton, California. He said the D'andrea 348 was his favorite shape & the image of him on the pick was taken from a drawing a street artist did of him years earlier.
It is stories like this that make collecting picks, especially vintage picks, so attractive. So many mysteries to be solved, and too few sleuths to solve them, or in this case, just plain lucky chance encounters with the history itself."
"There is a bit of interesting history to it', as Joe explains: "About 1996 as I was walking out of Whittaker Music in Long Beach, CA. this man was walking in. Briefly, he heard me talking to the proprietor about picks and said he had some I may be interested in. I arranged a meeting with him & purchased $300.00 worth of fine vintage pieces he had saved since the 1970s. As we concluded the deal, he offered me a few of his personal picks. That mystery man is "Tracy Sands" of Fullerton, California. He said the D'andrea 348 was his favorite shape & the image of him on the pick was taken from a drawing a street artist did of him years earlier.
It is stories like this that make collecting picks, especially vintage picks, so attractive. So many mysteries to be solved, and too few sleuths to solve them, or in this case, just plain lucky chance encounters with the history itself."
Super Rare D'Andrea #348 Signature "Tracy Sands" Pick(reverse is blank-see pick on page 81 of Will Hoover's Book 'Picks!') Thanks JM!!
Very rare vintage D'Andrea 0.71mm white celluloid 'Cow' guitar pick
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(reverse of pick at left)
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Corrugated D'Andreas:
HTF Vintage corrugated white D'Andrea 351 guitar pick
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(reverse of pick at left)
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Corrugated 1950s D'Andrea 351s with 'D'A' stamp intact.
2 more examples of the D'A corrugated tortoise celluloid 351
HTF D'Andrea #34G vintage corrugated long teardrop picks
HTF D'A vintage 'Series 300' 329G-sized corrugated tortoise celluloid
'Golden Age' D'Andreas:
Beautiful 351 D'A(Old Logo)
D'Andrea vintage #352 celluloid
(reverse of above pick)
Vintage D'Andrea #360 shape
(reverse of above pick)
Vintage D'Andrea 336C(old logo) cork grip pick
(rear view of above pick)
Black Celluloid D'As(vintage logo)
(reverse of above picks)
Vintage 1973 'Famous 351' guitar pick(D'Andrea made this pick for the distributor, Northeast Musical Supply Co., that has since gone out of business)
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(reverse of pick on left)
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Old logo D'A laminated pick(black side)
(reverse of above pick-white side)
Vintage D'Andrea 'Coke & Ice' # 350Triangle Pick
Two beautiful examples of golden age D'A elliptical #346 guitar picks
(reverse of above)
D'A golden age elliptical picks
(reverse of above)
Vintage D'Andrea triangle shaped tortoise celluloid guitar pick
(reverse of above)
'Double' Logo:
Rare 'double-logo' D'Andrea clear 351 celluloid
Rare 'double-logo' D'Andrea tortoise celluloid 351 pick
Crayon/Mosaic:
1940s D'A Crayon #352
1940's D'Andrea 'Crayon'
Beautiful pair of D'Andrea 1930s 'crayon' mosaics #363 shape
Beautiful old #363 shaped 1930s 'crayon mosaic' D'Andrea celluloid pick
(same pick as above)
(reverse of above pick)
Golden Age(circa 1930s) D'Andrea 'crayon' mosaic #363.
(reverse of above pick)
D'Andrea 1940s crayon finger pick
D'Andrea prototype. 'Your Name Here'
(reverse of above)
D'Andrea thin heart mosaic
'Broken Heart' Picks:
Vintage #390 'Broken Heart'(black)
Vintage 'Broken Heart' #390tortoise celluloid)
A nice #59 D'A pointy-tipped celluloid
#367A in tortoise
#359A in white
Purple & red
#351A in green & brown
#349A(red) & brown(unknown)
Vintage D'Andrea 'Black & White'
(black on one side-white on the other)
(reverse side is white)
Longest pick!(#366)
D'Andrea 'Bullseye' pick in very unique colored celluloid
(reverse of above pick)
Vintage 60s D'Andrea Bullseye guitar picks pick box
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Close up showing double logo
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1970s White D'A Pacer nylon
(reverse side of above pick-light gauge)
D'Andrea 'Pinwheel' Picks:
Gray Pearloid & Red Celluloid(blank on back of pick)
Tortoise Celluloid & White Pearloid Pinwheels(blank on back)
Very nice black embossed Pinwheel(very hard to photograph)
Clear yellow D'A Pinwheel guitar pick
D'Andreas 'American Standard' celluloid guitar pick-medium gauge
Other:
Vintage 'spyglass' Kinder's guitar pick
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(reverse of pick at left)
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Vintage red celluloid 'Leach's Music'
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(reverse of pick at left)
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1960s D'Andrea made 'Blues' guitar pick
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(reverse of pick at left)
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