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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.