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GWP - if you run Excel, PM me an email address and I'll send you the files. If you don't run Excel, PM me a land address and I'll send you a hardcopy.

I think auctions are just as likely to over value an item as to under value it. People seem to live in deathly fear of missing out on a bargain; we have all seen guys walking into a gun show near hyperventilate on seeing someone walking out of the show with a gun on his shoulder and a canary-eatin' cat grin on his face. However, it seems that most auctions with guns will have a few people up on the price of every item and it only takes two bidders with "musn't miss a bargain" psychology to run the price up. It has been some time since I saw a gun sell significently under value at an auction. I'm always amazed at the "jack" a room full of good 'ole boys can come up with when guns are on the block. Among any group of GOB there is going to be at least one with significent means (count on it). I'd bet that at least two of the auction attendees knew exactly what they were bidding on.

I don't have Excel so I must take you up on your kind offer to mail it to me.
Alderfer auction near Philadelphia is no country bumpkin auction though that's exactly how everyone looks. The majority of the attendees are dealers. However, it's rare to see an English shotgun sold there.
The most interesting gun I have seen there over the years is a Souza shotgun--no, I am not talking about a Souza Grade shotgun, I am talking about one of his ornate shotguns with all the provenance!
Please check your PM's for my address.
Thanks.

GWP - with the rare exception of an on-the-farm auction waaaay out in the hinterland, there will be some well informed folk where guns are going to be auctioned. I always like to have some dealers around as they will "tell" you when the price moves from wholesale to retail. Bubba, on the other hand, may well decide he is going to own that item and nothing short of fiducary frivolity will intervien in your favor.

No PM showing yet. Did you send it?

The mystery of the bought in gun, to be fit and finished elsewhere!
This has been bounced around for sometime - what was the bought in gun, and where did the bought in gun come from hmmm?
...and why have we been such fools paying the Evans price?
When we could have had a Lincoln Jeffries!

Rocketman, I sent a second PM -- maybe I am doing something wrong.
In any case if you email it to me I will take it to someone with Excel and print it out.
Thanks.
My address is traptee1@msn.com

Lincoln Jefferies was the son of George Jefferies gun maker of Norwich. {Est ; 1841}. George was awarded patents related to the actions of double guns and loading tools . Lincoln established him self as a gun maker at 31, Whittall Street in Birmingham, circa 1873. A business bearing the name Lincoln Jefferies was trading in Birmingham as late as 1988. Lincoln gained fame as the patentee of a very fine air rifle. During the 1950,s Lincoln Jefferies retail gun shop was in Steelhouse lane in Birmingham.They sold shotguns bearing their name at this location.[I was there} As I recall, they were at that time of similar quality to those manufactured by Webley and Scott or Midland Gun Company.