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With the dollar dropping steeper than a Stuka's dive anyone care to guess what sort of inflation American buyers are going to experience on new and used European and English guns?
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Well I don't know about the dollars impact on double guns, but I really wish Sherman Bell would shut up about Damascus guns...the secret's almost completely out of the bag now and these guns are getting expensive.
I still think that the boxlock non-ejector is the jewel of the doulbe gun market. You get a whole lot more gun for your money and for the most part, the market hasn't fully caught on. Especially the not-so-common names like Cogswell, Reilly, Frazer etc.
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I buy guns cheaper in England than I can ship them over here. Since the mail quit taking guns it's air freight only. It sucks.
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Does the value of the US dollar against the Euro or pound or whatever really matter that much? I have felt that importation has been so heavy over the last decade that the supply of Brit guns in the States today outweighs demand. Of course, I'm speaking in very general terms, here ... demand for certain guns remains steady, and I'm really thinking of the basic, nice boxlock, even from the better names. Thoughts? TT
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Used "name" British sidelocks in good shape don't seem to be getting any cheaper, due to heavy demand from a robust market worldwide and falling dollar.
A FAMARS Excalibur was in reach a couple years for a shooter who really wanted to plump for a nice new O/U. Not now.
I know some dealers of Spanish guns have pegged the prices they pay the makers to a fixed Euro amount but that will expire soon. Given the competitiveness of the market in this price bracket I suspect it will hurt them.
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I think Spanish guns have out priced themselves. I love and have owned several Spanish guns but can not see the value taht they have reached. I can already see that Spanish gun sales have dropped. I search the internet sites and see the same guns there over and over.
But I too am having a problem selling my Winchester 21.
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I search the internet sites and see the same guns there over and over.
I've saw Jim Leggs Bernadelli for sale so long on Gun broker I'm tempted to buy it just to cheer him up....  Most guns you see run for a long time have issues or are over priced to start with. Guns priced right on those sites sell. The thing about those vintage guns.....we'll all be gone by the time the next vintage guns come around.
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How,s this for inflation? In 1968 Purdey quoted me 1100 pounds stirling for a new 12G S.L.E. This week I received a Purdey clothing catalogue in which the price of a leather cartridge belt was stated to be 575 pounds!
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Roy:
You should have bought the Purdey in 1968.
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I should have bought a lot of things 1n 1968 but I did not have the money, except for a Lotus Elite, now 50 years old and still one of the timeless designs-a truly beautiful tiny car. I went and sold that in 1970 to help fund emigration to South Africa.
They had an Elite reunion at Goodwood race track this summer, my Elite is now owned by a doctor in Scotland who races it and also a Lotus 26R, a racing version of the Elan, I bought one and ran it on the road when I got back from South Africa to England. Those are worth a fortune now as so few survived. It too is still racing in Ireland, I was told. wich I had them both. Now I have a 83 Porshe 944 and a 84 Mazda GSL-SE, so I do have a couple of nice sports cars to tear around in like a blue assed fly.
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