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.577 Holland and Holland underlever hammer double rifle in a new made oak and leather case with new Ivory handled accessories sold for $16,000.00 in the April 2016 Julia Auction. Just sold for $7,000.00! I sold a .577 3" BPE Holland back action sidelock top lever hammerless double rifle in a period case with accessories made for the Nizam of Hyderabad (gold inlayed on the rib)in the same auction for $28,500.00. It just sold for $13,000.00!!! Prices have really dropped.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Shameless attempt to promote items at auction.
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GaryD007 Thanks for sharing the pricing info Mike
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Pick your reasons. Covid economy. Buyers market. Declining interest in double rIfles. Too many potential buyers are emptying their safes. Soft market. All the above.
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I feel the double shotgun prices are falling too. I feel reasons are because the auction houses have kept increasing the pre auction est for years and they also have been inching their kicker price up. When I started 10% was high and now 15% is low. To me that makes a big difference. With the 10% they get from the cosigner they are make at least 25% on a sale. Then if you use another bidding service it goes up from there. I live in Alaska and a big name auction House tried to charge me $350 to ship the gun to Alaska. $75 will get any gun shipped priority, insured mail to my house. So my feeling are the auction houses are getting way to greedy.
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Soft market for sure but I have been selling guns. Lower quality and condition is really slow. I have moved some really nice guns for strong money lately though. Lots to choose from on the market and very little young blood in the game. I have very few clients under fifty.
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Not a true "promotion" IMO- rather a detailed account of varying price levels over past 4 years. Did anyone get the catalog in the mail, as I do? I noticed a strange BAR 1918 in the Class 3 sector- the muzzle and gas tube area looked "buggered up" to me. Wonder what it sold for- ditto the Singer 1911-A-1. RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Because most clients under the age of 50 do not have the disposable funds to spend on a luxury gun today. Wonder what the Czar's Parker and Teddy Roosevelt's A.H. Fox would fetch today- ditto the Westley Richards .577 rifle owned by Ernest Hemingway.RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Because most clients under the age of 50 do not have the disposable funds to spend on a luxury gun today. Wonder what the Czar's Parker and Teddy Roosevelt's A.H. Fox would fetch today- ditto the Westley Richards .577 rifle owned by Ernest Hemingway.RWTF That is 1/2 the reason, the other half is they have zero interest in history. Talk to a younger person for a few moments about the history related to a gun and they get glassy eyed and are looking for an exit sign. Everything is disposable these days. I just saw that "Fast Times at Ridgemont high" just turned forty. When was the last time you saw a TV repair man? The world is changing and it is not waiting around for us sentimental old codgers.
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I just had a oven go on the Fritz after two years. To repair 400 bucks is the estimate (new circuit board and labor). You can buy a new one for $600. Yep, no one fixes anything any more. They just throw out and buy new.
foxes rule
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