Actually. the instrument is being sold by a clearinghouse that does not even usually deal in musical instruments. I just happened to be browsing and saw that they had an "old guitar with a signature". The guitar looked interesting and old, and the description said they couldn't make out the name. I looked at the picture and was shocked to see "Lead Belly", again, in a sloppy script, but with a style that is definitely old-fashioned. Whoever signed the guitar learned their penmanship back in the day.

Thing is, since there are a lot of people who don't know who Lead Belly was, there's a very good chance that people could have looked right at that signature and not recognized it.

I have a feeling that this guitar may have belonged to someone that has since died; their family, not seeing anything but an old, dusty, cheap guitar, just got rid of it.

Mary Katherine, I shall indeed PM you. I appreciate your help. :)