My point of the Holts links were to show that you could import one a lot less expensive than this money pit. Usually the estimated range are very close to realized purchases.
The estimated prices on Holt's tend to be real low for just about every gun I take an interest in. Most go for two or tree times the low estimate, except for one which went for 24,000 pounds instead of the 2-3,000 pounds estimate. Funny thing is that others guns I had a mild interest in seem to go for the estimate range. I have eleven bids submitted in the next two auctions but would be amazed if I win one or two. In fact I will watch and perhaps raise my bid online in real time on a couple.
The one other auction house over there I also look at seems to be less inclined to have guns sell for multiple of the estimate. But any runaway auction just take two bidders with determination and a checkbook.
