What, this old thing?
Hi, I'm Neil and Mickie Most was my father-in-law. I also happen to be a guitarist and I'm friends with Simon Johnson, with whom you would probably have been recording back then. The daughter you met would have been Nathalie, my (now) missus. I never had the chance to meet Mickie as he died in 2003, but there are countless stories!
I'm not sure where the Big Jim Sullivan guitar comes in to the story, but Page himself says it was Mickie's J200 on the first two records. Perhaps Big Jim's was used live. Makes sense, as there are some on-stage photos of Page with a sunburst J200 and Mickie definitely wouldn't have let him tour with his!
Page seems to think the Mickie's J200 and '59 maple neck strat were stolen at some point, but I wouldn't be surprised if Mickie just said that to avoid lending it out again; we still have both guitars, so it's definitely not true! I didn't know about the Stairway to Heaven overdubs and haven't been able to find any info about that online. Did you get that from Mickie or is there any more reliable source you could point me to? I mean if it was my guitar and Page had played it, I'd say it was on Stairway too! Haha.
