Did anyone else add up all the Lefever parts and bids for the G grade that someone parted out and sold on Ebay last week? Not scrap metal but certainly no cherry. Total bids for the lots came to over $714.00 plus shipping. There have been several simular F and G grade on Gunbroker that have gone without bids for less than $500.00. And for that price you do not get all those parts in a box that has to be put back togeather. $714.00 for parts and that did not include barrels. They were not listed. They would have made the gun a grand plus by the prices bid.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...p;rd=1&rd=1Is it just me or do some people just loose all common sense when they bid for lots like this? Makes me want to go buy a bunch of old guns and take them apart ans sell them on Ebay. Just think what Parker parts would have brought.
Must have been six different winners and all seem to have bought about three items each. Hope they each got what they wanted and I am sure the seller was happy. $714.00 for a parts gun. Wow.
By the way this gun had bushed firing pins. I am starting to think that Lefever made all the 1891 era guns with bushed firing pins and later stopped the practice. This has to be a dozen different guns with them and they all seem to be in the same date range. I thought that they had been done much later by a repair-gunsmith but now accept that they were factory. Too common in this serial number range to all be done later. Once again I learn more about Lefevers that I did not even know that I did not know.
