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The only well known 'relic' acoustic I've ever seen is Willie Nelson's and that just looks like a horse stood on it at the last barn dance. There's nothing aesthetically pleasing about that guitar at all as far as I can see.
People - even millionaire rock stars - tend to be more careful with their acoustics cos they're more fragile to start with. OK, Bruce Springsteen has been known to throw his acoustic to his roadie every so often but that's the exception rather than the rule.
Because of the fragility of acoustics I think that a second hand beat-up guitar wouldn't be that appealing to the general masses who would tend to view the owner/seller as a careless so-and-so and therefore be less inclined to pay top dollar in case there was something else wrong with the instrument.
There aren't any reliced semi-acoustic electrics like 335's etc on the market either for the same reason.
So the Hendrix/SRV/Rory Gallagher type beat up electric syndrome just doesn't apply to acoustics as far as I can see.
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