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History made at Gun Auction yesterday
trawler
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I attended an estate gun auction in Hillsville Virginia yesterday and watched as a Buckeye single shot shotgun sold for $10,000.00 This may well be the most ever paid for this particular model. Normally I would expect it to sell for $100, or maybe $125. A colt woodsman 2nd generation without a magazine brought $7,500. What happened was two family members (both women) sitting on opposite sides of the room both wanted daddy's or maybe they were grandpa's or great grandpa's guns. Anyway, it sure was something to see.
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@trawler Good to have you back in sw Va.
Thank you, It's good to be home. However, I am going back this Fall to Skagway for 6 weeks during hunting season and for silver salmon fishing. We are converting an ambulance into a camper. It is almost done and will be our home when we travel.
Estate sales are always interesting and fun.
That ambulance will get you up north quickly if you turn on the lights! 🚑🚑
Welcome back to The Old Dominion.
I have always said, want to know what happens to your stuff when you are gone? Just go to an auction.
I was there to. Front row sitting where I could see one the ladies bidding.
Boy was she mad. Cat fight to say the least.
Trawler, was that you beside me?
No, I was in center section about half way back. I bought one of the H&R 732 revolvers and the Iver Johnson .22 revolver. I wanted the Colt Woodsman but didn't expect it to go for $7500.00
Fellow beside me had several pistols, the first to be auctioned, took a beating after the15% sellers fee. He also had the silver. He felt a little better about it. He mentioned being in Alaska for several years is why I asked.
The S&W Model 17 was the best buy of the auction, at least while I was there.
The Norma TAC 22 and Federal match high velocity went waaaay to high,
Folks get auction fever many times.
We had a similar situation up here one time, a single shot shotgun brought $18,000. Two brothers fighting over dads gun.
years ago
a coworker family had a estate sale 1st time was just the family whatever they bought came out of their share of inheritance money. so some items went crazy some not so much after the family sale they held another estate auction for the public sale of course the family could also go to thet one
I thought it was a neat idea to just let the family have 1st shot at the goods
If you bump into the lady that won the Colt Woodsman without a magazine tell her I have a genuine Colt magazine for it that I'll let go, I own no Colt Woodsman but I do have a High Standard it fits, I might even let her set the price, she seems like a reasonable lady to me 😃
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
I think you have a comma and/or a decimal point in the wrong place.
His commas and decimals are in the correct place.
Having relatives fighting over your stuff after you've died is not the right way to do it. Auctioneers around here usually get 20% or so. The highest I have seen was 30%. That $10,000 shotgun would give the auctioneer several thousand dollars unless they can work something out.