It seems that Martin is worth a lot of money because very few were made (well, to be fair, any pre-war Martin in good shape is probably worth a lot of money - make that a whole lot of money by my standards

).
Personally I've never been impressed by the argument that something becomes ridiculously valuable just because it's rare. I'd rather have a roomful of nice instruments I could actually (try to) play than just one "of only 14 ever made".
Still, there's a lot of nice stuff there! I always especially like seeing harp guitars after being introduced to them by the works of (the sadly departed) Michael Hedges.