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Wild Cattle I should have put quotes around what I copied but the comment about museum piece was what I copied off of the Griffon and Howe page.
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Mike
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Obesssed... You're a bit off face with your comments about the Scott. I know this gun and have "lustin my heart" for this piece. G&H DOES NOT represent the gun is all original...just the timber.
You have a tendency to find fault with exquisite guns. I hope this is all done for the love of the gun rather than envy. I do share your passion for pre-1892 Scotts tho.
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Bellefe-
You are correct all around. I'm sorry if I offended.
Even though I try and see the good in things, too often I focus on the bad.
The gun is very nice - please don't misunderstand me.
Thanks
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I'd say they off by at least 22K on the price of the Scott.
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That gun belongs in a museum. It a masterpiece of the gunmaking art.
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Buy it and hang it in your local Cracker Barrel.
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If you go to the dictionary and look up the word "baroque", there should be a picture of the French gun there, just to help you grasp the concept.
Somewhere, art and tool should have a strong dividing line, which becomes blurred in cases like this. It is indeed useful as art, but, that leaves the shooter in me a bit sad.
I feel the same way at an art car parade. I once saw a legit 340 Duster with seashells glued all over it.
Of course the gun belongs in a museum. I can't explain exactly why, but, I would be way more interested in a regular old Kentucky rifle, showing heavy grease staining around the patch box, and many years of use. Many, many years. But, I'd rather see the Kentucky rifle outside the museum.
I hope people "get" that.
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Ted
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Griffin & Howe- the guys that bought A&F in NYC- shades of Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, Charley Wicks and Harold Money- and they are selling some Chi-Com air gun for $50- my have times changed- wonder what my old 1948 Daisy "Red Ryder" BB gun made in good old USA (Plymouth MI) or my Benjamin pump .177 cal pellet gun would fetch-I'm gonna have to "check it out"!! RWTF
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As I have mentioned here upon occasion I am currently indexing the Abercrombie & Fitch gun sales records for Griffin & Howe (I'm up to 1952) and I can assure all that A&F sold thousands of air rifles by Apache, Benjamin, Crosman, Czech, Daisy, Haenel, Webley and others, including used ones. If a dealer receives an air rifle when purchasing a collection of guns should they refuse to sell it? Unfortunately, most of the air rifles in the records had no serial numbers and were given stock numbers by A&F. They may not have been high dollar but their numbers were significant.
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