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You can not get to that site from your internet service. Sorry I could tell you where to post, but it would do you no good and just server to remind you how limited you are. No offense old chap but your school tie is the wrong color. Public school and all you understand....

The guys who buy Parker Bros. Invincibles, the reall BoWhoop and Lord Louis' Purdeys are out making money, not spending their time on these sites!!!

I do understand! thats why I'm asking the important collectors to pipe-in.

Thornster,
I'm just a peapicker but I am privy to observe the inner sanctum... from time to time. Not guns unfortunately, but other stuff of similar ilk. Call it observed hearsay.

Dave, the old money out there doesn't have to do any more work than getting up out of bed in the morning-not to be confused with new money.

The rich are, different. So are we, but, I like to think in a good way. I mean, I care if my guns get rusty...
Best,
Ted

I recall my late father-in-law winning bids on guns that he never so much as blinked for. He was within at least the first circle. Lowell's suspicions are correct IMO. I don't mean to say the auctions are rigged, just that some houses know what a collector needs and will essentially bid for them. Still, a person could compete against it, but it may cost more than market to acquire the piece if this is going on. The auctioneer has the advantage in most cases, of knowing more about market value than most buyers.

Low Glen always be lookin' fo' some names to drop. Like he can be people by knowin' people. Dat why he he'e! Ain't no never matter. He knows there is another rung...another ladder...a higher floor with a secret staircase to another world beyond mere manors and manners. He doesn't seem to get that almost ALL have too much but never enough.

Wanting is not reception bound, no matter what fool seeks what fools and their gold.

Just chuckin' some shuck'n'jive over here, Boss!~)

LG,
Book some high-end driven bird shoots, start rubbing elbows, talk the talk, have your estate's gatekeeper call mine...pretty soon us hoi polloi will be amusing history.

In atomic terms, old money has a very short half life and new money even shorter. Fortunes vanish in short order when the earning stops and the spending begins. Considering that we are still organized by families, it is very difficult to keep the earnings going from generation to generation. "Hey, we got more money than I can ever spend!! Why should I work?" Well, because it is knee-buckling the amount of money that can be spent in a lifetime dedicated to spending. A wealty lifestyle, not to be confused with a wealthy life, requires prodigious spending; the ability to spend is how one proves a wealthy lifestyle. "Shirt sleves to shirt sleves in three generations" is hard to avoid - seen it many times.

Say you got a $10,000,000 after tax lump of money. Year in year out you could probably spend 4% without reducing the value of the principle (based on reasonabley low risk investments). That is $400,000 or maybe $200,000 after tax. So, a $1,000,000 house will tap you for, oh, say $125,000 a year and a luxury car will set you back $75,000, so no Purdeys the first year --- no food either!!

Of course there are inner circles. Always have been and always will be. And, yes, money does buy favor.

So what you are saying is that material objects mean nothing because Mother Nature can come along with a tornado and suck everything you have accumulated in your life into the sky and shred it into confetti and blow it into the next county because when you really think about it, you are no different than a bug in the ground and when you die you just turn to dust and no one ever really amounts to anything when you get right down to it, whether they ever had anything or not. Or is that what I'm saying?