Hold on guys. The only damage I see is the ruined fin which indeed speaks for severe temperature and moisture changes (I don't think that ole Overend took his basses out of the truck every night on those long US winter tours with Mott, he had half a dozen of those white ones.) But other than that, it looks structurally alright and all hardware is original. Am I missing something?
The Bird bequeathed by Watts to Martin Turner had a broken headstock (which Turner had repaired and you can still see the repair to this day), this is a different specimen, as I said, Herr Watts had several of them and broke a few (I hasten to add: by accident), famously once to then proceed to sing his bass part over his microphone! Talk about service beyond the call of duty!
