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David:

OK OK OK.....

When is it? Anticipation is right. I want to hear how this story ends.

Regards

GKT

Greg...Thought your Humor was(IS) great...Let me say just how UN/funny Guns'Standing in the Rack,Guns in Stripped down boxes, Guns in the vice being re-stocked, Guns waiting to have new'Limbs Fitted,Soft bit on the 'back-end of the stock waiting to be Wrapped in'Luxurious Leather' The JP&s i2b O/U in the Setting Bench......Phweeee! that was close, Flashpoint of the Special Oil imported from'Distant Lands"was a split second from'Bursting into Flames"(We always have a bottle of Heineken on stand by, for such emergencys)Iv'e never heard a gun,or rifle Laugh' Mabe its just that I need a few more years at the bench, 1953 was'nt all that long ago..!!!cc

Personally I wouldn't care if the gun was made for a Russian Czar or for Elvis Presley. It's just a machine made by men. This crap of heaping tons of money on provenance that indicates some illuminary once owned a gun is foolishness. Evaluate the gun for what it is, not for who might have owned it in the past!

JMHO,

Curl

CptCurl,
No sympathetic magic in your world? The guns can't carry a little foo-foo dust along with 'em? C'mon....

I thought the provenance of interest wasn't so much the Czar, but the discussion of this mysterious gun in Peter Johnson's book. It was the Parker bible of the 60's, the book that today's serious collectors were memorizing when they were VH owners.

"Evaluate the gun," is for the modest collector/shooter.
Provenance, is for the more advanced among us.
Intangible gun things are just as important as percent of case.
Perhaps the paper chase is the most exciting, to those who can!

Is this where the side show is lOw'e ?

Just out of curiosity - would you care if your double rifle was previously owned by, say, Jim Corbett?

You'd know it wasn't a closet queen.

Well I suppose my statement was a bit provocative, and maybe even hypocritical to a degree. Frankly, I intended it that way!

I'll even confess to having a couple of rifles with interesting provenance. Fortunately not Parkers.
James Woodward "The Automatic"
Charles Lancaster .280 Flanged Nitro Express

Just think: if I were a famous person I could buy garden variety mass produced guns and then re-sell them at handsome profit just so the buyer could crow about the gun having been owned by Roscoe Stephenson! That would be a fine way to make a living, in my mind.

Curl

I think you have it backward's Lowell. It is no trick to buy a $75K gun for $75K. Being able to properly and fairly evaluate a gun to determine the quality of the build takes a great deal of knowledge and expertise - Simply purchasing the first gun you find that says "Boss" on it, not so much.

Your fascination and fawning over the secretive "inner-sanctum" of the doublegun world is getting old. I've met many advanced collectors and handled many, many fine firearms. There is no secret handshake or cryptic passwords required to be able to do so.

Then again, there may be a subtle element needed for admission to this club you may not have picked up - you need to actualy go out and meet some of the people who post on this board. You might have to use your real name though. It is not that scary, really.

Ken Georgi