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If you are an avid Winchester 21 collector or simply like to look at them, this auction might be for you...
Have your three largest credit cards on stand-by!

http://www.winchestermodel21.com/

Happy bidding!

Model2128Ga

Am I the only one here who thinks this "collection" was a monumental waste? IMO: Shotguns were built to be used and enjoyed for the purpose they were intended. I can assure everyone I have no new in the box examples in my possession The only analogy I can come up with is buying an expensive sports can and never driving it!
Jim

It seems to me if he enjoyed his collection his money was well spent, guns mint or not. And to me they are extraordinary.

I am sure that someone who knows me has thought the time and money I spend on bird dog puppy purchases, bird guns, bird leases, bird dog training, electronic training collars, bird dog trailers, bird dog medical bills, and bird hunting is a colossal waste of those two resources. Yet to me it is the best spent time and money (except for what I spend on my wife, of course).

I have to say I'm with Jim on this one. At least for me. If it made him happy, well, it was his money. But whether they are cars, guns or anything else....to fully realize their exquisiteness, they need to be used for the purpose intended.

This may be heresy, but if somehow I came to own one of the Invincibles,(unlikely cause I don't like Parkers LOL), I'd have to shoot it at a bird at least once. On a really sunny day! When all rocks had been removed from a half mile radius!

We're kinda getting all metaphysical here.

But for the original owner's intent, these guns would not exist. They unquestionably were built and enjoyed for their intended purpose Jim and Canvasback -- it just happens to differ from your definition of their purpose. Different strokes.

Jay

Never even assembled. Now that's a waste.
Why not just collect pictures of Model 21's.

Amen to that:
Another analogy comes to mind. Marry an incredibly beautiful woman and never comsumate the marriage!! That would certainly take the situation out of the "metaphysical" category.
Jim

About 1989 I examined a five gauge set of graded 21s. Don't remember the grade but they all were alike and had gold inlays. They belonged to an owner of a plantation in SC where I had been invited to shoot doves by the manager, a good friend. He asked me to come into the gun room and help him pick out a gun to shoot. He said that the owner had told him he could use any gun in the gun room that day for the dove shoot. There were A-frame gun racks all in the room with wooden pegs to hold the guns horizontally. On one rack was the set of 21s. Those guns had been used, cared for, but used. I fondled them wistfully, realizing the value of what I was seeing.

I personally don't care for the gaudiness of the guns pictured in the Julia's advertisement. Small gold inlays can be tasteful. Overdone, they remind me of Mr. T. I don't, however, belittle the seller for never using them, different strokes for different folks. It's just not my cup of tea. He will realize many, many thousands of dollars more from this auction because he never assembled them, tho'.

SRH

Or this one? Buy a 100 year old box of rare shotshells and never shoot them? I mean, after all, shells were made to be shot, right? A rare, but empty, hull has a little less value than a loaded one but, what the heck, I got to use it for what it was intended for, right?

SRH

I am sure the Custom Shop was glad for the business and was more than happy to make the guns. Others may see the high grades as the height of the finest guns made by the Custom Shop but they are just too fancy for my taste. But if the man enjoyed them that is all that matters. His money and his vision, not ours of mine. Just hope they are not expecting me to bid on them. Not going to happen.

I know of two private collections of Brownings guns and Winchester model 70's that are both very extensive. Neither collector wishes to be know and they frankly do not care what I or anyone else thinks of their collections. They are both very happy with them and neither shoots more than a very few of them if at all anymore. The Browning collector had a long wall filled with .22 autos mostly a few grade III and what must have been almost 50 grade VI's. His favorite gun to shoot was a grade I that was a gift when he was a boy. It has shot a million bullets I bet. The other wall was filled with Superpose guns of all grades it seemed. The Model 70 collector has been to Africa several times using part of his collection but I understand no longer hunts or shoots due to declining health. Their collections will one day be sold or passed on to others and I just hope whom ever gets them has as much fun with them as they have had.