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10-27-2011, 08:12 PM | #13 | ||||||
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Mr. Beach, was that the Sloan from Sloan's Sporting Goods up the street? I take it that maybe Sloan's didn't deal in used guns? Sloan's sold some wonderful new guns but I don't know about the used ones. I once lettered a Parker gun from Sloan's that was sold to Annie Laurie Crawford, a serious shooter who once inherited something like 31 large, only one of her sources of income. Bill Murphy
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10-27-2011, 08:32 PM | #14 | ||||||
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That gun was obviously ruined by some unthinking boob replacing the stock.
(Let's call that a small jab at the "purists" amongst us.) |
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10-27-2011, 08:56 PM | #15 | ||||||
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I agree with the previous poster that some modifications of original guns don't seem to affect the value. However, Mr. M., try to sell a restocked VHE or DHE for the big buck. It all depends on the individual gun. We don't object to your jab. It is a good comment on our hobby. I have a clue that this Murphy fellow may be "one of us". Time will tell.
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10-27-2011, 11:05 PM | #16 | ||||||
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Bill,
I'm probably the guy who would buy that restocked VHE if it was restocked with a nice piece of walnut with a 2 1/4" DAH and 1/4 cast off, instead of the beat up stock with the 3" drop that it probably had. Only point I'm making is that sometimes a refurbishment or rebuild is the best thing a particular shotgun can have happen to it. I also appreciate quality firearms that have been reasonably cared for and show their "history" and life story in their patina and scars. I've got both and i wouldn't necessarily want to be refurbished. |
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10-27-2011, 11:11 PM | #17 | ||||||
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It is indeed a fine and beautiful Parker and to some, the replacement stock (looks to me like Del Grego's stockwork) wouldn't be a problem but to others would be a 'deal breaker'.
The eventual sell price (which would allow for the price of a restock by a contemporary artist in the field) would be the determining factor to the gun ever ending up in certain collector's safes... |
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10-28-2011, 12:26 AM | #18 | ||||||
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It seems an awful lot of high end Parkers on the market have been restocked, from this gun to the Czar's gun.
At $30K, if the gun were still wearing its original wood, I'd be having a sit down talk with my wife. The kind where we openly talk about our feelings. Like, "I feel like buying another Parker - go get the big checkbook." With the restock, to a PG no less, I won't. |
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10-28-2011, 05:46 AM | #19 | ||||||
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I did just that last night ! You know what I was told, NO GUN IS WORTH 30K. Oh well
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