Re: David Gilmour guitar auction

If you have it shipped, then you'll need CITES licenses -and I believe you'll need both export and import licenses. I believe about £125.
If you personally import it, then the wood content is under the 10kg limit for Rosewood family woods, so you can bring it through without a certificate.
As I'd imagine all the guitars will have ben shipped to the US from the UK, CITES certificates should already be in existence for each guitar (unless DG goes back and forth to NY 60 times - allowing for 2 guitars a trip), so they may be making things out to be worse than they are.
Some of those old guitars will have Brazilian rosewood fretboards, which will be CITES covered, but others, like maple board Strats, don't contain any CITES listed wood, so don't need a certificate at all.
Then I just found this: https://www.nottinghamcityguitars.com/cites-guitars/, which is a bit worrying as I have an old Gibson C&W with a Brazilian Rosewood board.
But if they got them out to the USA, then there must be an easy way of getting them back.
Personally, I think DG should hand-deliver each one, or he can hold a BBQ down in Brighton (with Jack Ruston as chef), where you can say hello and pick it up.
If you personally import it, then the wood content is under the 10kg limit for Rosewood family woods, so you can bring it through without a certificate.
As I'd imagine all the guitars will have ben shipped to the US from the UK, CITES certificates should already be in existence for each guitar (unless DG goes back and forth to NY 60 times - allowing for 2 guitars a trip), so they may be making things out to be worse than they are.
Some of those old guitars will have Brazilian rosewood fretboards, which will be CITES covered, but others, like maple board Strats, don't contain any CITES listed wood, so don't need a certificate at all.
Then I just found this: https://www.nottinghamcityguitars.com/cites-guitars/, which is a bit worrying as I have an old Gibson C&W with a Brazilian Rosewood board.
But if they got them out to the USA, then there must be an easy way of getting them back.
Personally, I think DG should hand-deliver each one, or he can hold a BBQ down in Brighton (with Jack Ruston as chef), where you can say hello and pick it up.