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#282031 06/20/12 08:26 PM
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I feel a little odd offering this to the members but I felt angry, jealous, sick, and happy all at once and thought to share. Someone was VERY LUCKY. I meet regularly with a state law enforcement officer who has a side hobby/business dealing in vintage items. He regularly sells down on Lincoln Rd in South Beach on those fitting weekends; he enjoys dealing mostly in old porcelain/tin signs. His best deals of late were the older Penn Intl reels where he bought half a dozen for $10/ea! Being a fisherman and a Cuban he was happy! lol I would be too.

Today we had lunch and he tells me I would kill him after he relates last week's momentous loss. After hearing the story I refrained from committing the murder then suicide. Last week he went to a little attended estate sale in Pinecrest (a wealthy suburb south of Coral Gables, FL), little attended because most of the items had already been sold at an earlier date. The seller was in her mid-80's whose husband passed years ago. She finally bought a home in another state and had to be out of the house by week's end. My friend and some strangers (another couple) were the only ones there at the time looking over goods. He asked about a couple shotguns and was told the price from the lady owner. He thought it over but instead purchased a box of old wooden decoys (my friend's brother is a duck hunter). He didn't have the cash for the shotguns and wasn't confident enough to know anything about them.

About the shotguns, he observed two shotguns, and observed that one was marked Perazzi which he recognized as an over under. The second was in fact not one shotgun but was a pair inside a wooden "box." It had no leather exterior but its inside label indicated Purdey & Sons. He observed they were 12 gauge and were side by sides, fitted to the case. The case had a velour or pool table cloth inside, red in color. But he liked the Perazzi because it was an over under and because it had more extensive engraving and had a nice "silver" finish. She was asking $700 for the Perazzi. After my friend was done looking over the shotguns and placing one of the Purdey actions back in its case, the husband of the couple went over and began handling the Purdeys. My friend decided the Purdeys were cool, too, because they had those levers on top as well!

My friend instantly called and texted his brother to ask about these shotguns and if they were a good deal. My friend only knows pumps. Sadly, his brother called him back 10 hours later... My friend at that point didn't have the cash to cover the purchase of the shotguns (you'll get the price of the Purdeys in a second if you keep reading). My friend overheard the husband unsuccessfully barter with the lady owner over the shotguns but then the husband agreed to take all three shotguns and thus gave her $1,000 cash. He told his wife to stay with the shotguns until he got back from the bank with the rest of the money. My friend left leaving the lady owner and the wife of the couple at the house. Boy was he happy with that box of decoys! The decoys were "users" as they were generally soiled and shot up but he got a good deal.

So, here's the pricing the lady owner was asking on the guns: The price of the Purdeys was $2,000 total ($1k/ea) and the Perazzi was $700.

True story and believe it - it can happen. Someone here in South Florida bought the deal of the century last week.

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In 1968 a friend of mine bought a 1902 Woodward with case for $35 at a garage sale in Waterloo,Iowa. He had the lady make up a bill of sale,which I saw. He had the barrels reblued and a new forend made but it was a really nice gun. He wanted $700 for it and I did not have the cash and a lawyer from Minnesota bought it.I have a letter from Jack O'Conner stating that he would not give that much for a 1902 Woodward but that many people would and that kind of kept me from borrowing the money to buy it.Keep in mind that I was making $2 an hour at a creamery at the time.Time heals all wounds.My ex would have ended up with it anyway so I don't feel too bad.

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There was a similar story making the rounds in the Portland area a while back, sbout a 20 ga Purdey that had been inherited by the original owner's dissolute descendent, who then sold it for $1k so he could cover his liquor bill and a little more. I'm inclined to believe the story.

These things do happen.


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There are always those who would take advantage of an unknowing widow. $20,000+ worth of Purdeys for $2,000 IMHO

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Originally Posted By: George L.
There are always those who would take advantage of an unknowing widow. $20,000+ worth of Purdeys for $2,000 IMHO

George
Or $50,000. Couldn't agree more. A GD thief makes me sick at my stomach and taking advantage of a widow is the same, maybe worse!


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Yer kidding, right? She set the price...Way self righteous, aint we?...

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This is what happens when you say "I daren't let the wife know how much I spent on these guns" ... or... Certainly Madam I'll look at your Husbands guns and let you know what they are worth.
I normally charge $25/gun for appraisals...to which widow replies "WHAT I only want to know what they are worth.!!"


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Originally Posted By: Last Dollar
Yer kidding, right? She set the price...Way self righteous, aint we?...


No, LD, just honest.

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Hmmmm...

Wonder if da Purdys were preserved in sperm oil?

(jus covering for JOe in his absence)

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Originally Posted By: rrrgcy

....estate sale in Pinecrest (a wealthy suburb south of Coral Gables, FL), little attended because most of the items had already been sold at an earlier date. The seller was in her mid-80's whose husband passed years ago. She finally bought a home in another state and had to be out of the house by week's end...



Yup, it's just a fun story. The vultures had plenty of chance to swoop in before deal of the century was made. She might have dropped them off at the local pd for eventual crushing for the scrap metal, if she had to move on as the story goes.

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