Now, if you have the available money, you can own the guns you only could dream of having. The opening bid on this real martial collector's holy grail is a mere $27,500, but plan on kicking in an additional 20% buyer's premium on top of whatever the high-bid is when the hammer falls.
What is happening is that the legendary fine collections of the 20th Century are being broken up as their collectors are passing away and their heirs have little or no interest in maintaining the collections their fathers and grandfathers amassed throughout their lifetimes, or the collections have a huge inheritance tax burden and the only way to pay that tax is to sell them to satisfy the collection.
I've owned some really desirable collectors' guns in the past, such as Zane Grey's 1895 Winchester 30-'06 take-down hunting rifle and an absolutely mint, brand new condition, 1873 Winchester Musket with bayonet, complete with the cleaning rods still wrapped in the brown paper in the stock. . . and I've brokered some really desirable gun collections including ones with guns such as the 27th known 1847 Colt Fluck Dragoon (there's one of those for sale in this auction) and the patent model for the Remington 1875 revolver. Guns such as these can raise your heart rate when you see them.
A buddy of mine has a 1911; he’s a bit of a peacenik so he was a little circumspect showing it to me.
It was a Union Switch & Signal 1943 (from his research) 1911 and it was nothing but dead nuts bone stock. It was just in excellent used condition with about 11 molecules of rust on it. Just beautiful.
A Fluck Dragoon...
I’d like to see that!
Could you post a link to
The catalog?
At least give the auctio House....
Thanks!
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If it is US Govt. property, how could it be won in a poker game?
There is at least one select fire Mauser Schnellfeuer Pistol up for auction.
These Class III/National Firearms Act firearms and devices, of course, require background checks and payment of the Federal transfer taxes, and are only legal in certain states (Residents of California, Hawaii, NY, NJ, and other Liberal strongholds can just drool). . . but you can own them if you live in those sane states.
Ping for your list.
It appears very well machined.
Certainly a collectable. A Singer!
Shoots great to this day but my Dad had it milled to put on adjustable sights back in the '50s - reduced it's value from $10K (about) to somewhere around $7K but it will never go for sale - generational hand-me-down.
Won a few competitions with it over the years. Still have the two-tone magazines it came with.