G&D, Any Favorites?

[Bobby Cash]

I've bid on a multi-barreled sub gauge with condition.
Good luck with your auction

[Dean Romig]

Yes, that magnificent unique AAHE double trap!







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[Dylan Rhodes]

I have a few, but pre-bid patterns aren’t giving me the warm fuzzies I’ll walk away with anything.

[Bill Murphy]

I'm not giving up my bids. My bidding strategy on Dean's favorite caved in very early. I was outbid in a matter of minutes. Oh, well.

[Mills Morrison]

Bobby’s choice is quite nice

[Andrew Sacco]

I like the Grade 2 hammer, I don't have a hammer gun. I want a hammer gun. I shot one hammer gun couldn't hit crap because my eyes kept going to the rabbit ears (yes, I have some form of ADHD) and distracting me. Still, I want a hammer gun.

[Dean Romig]

I like the Grade 2 hammer, I don't have a hammer gun. I want a hammer gun. I shot one hammer gun couldn't hit crap because my eyes kept going to the rabbit ears (yes, I have some form of ADHD) and distracting me. Still, I want a hammer gun.

So sell all your other shotguns Andy. When you have only one gun you leard how to shoot it without those distractions.





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[Dean Romig]

Oops, duplicate post…





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[John B White]

I’d be cautious about bringing any attention to an item I intended to bid on. Got into a bidding war on my last auction purchase and probably paid a tad high (after buyers premium and sales tax) just because I’m stubborn.

That said, I do have my eye on one or two.

[William Woods]

I did not receive the catalog for the current auction. I did see a couple I was interested in when I went to their site though.

[CraigThompson]

Yes, that magnificent unique AAHE double trap!

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That’s all good and fine but for the price I’d rather have the DHE 28 gauge 30” .

[Daryl Corona]

That’s all good and fine but for the price I’d rather have the DHE 28 gauge 30” .

Amen to that brother.:bowdown:

[Chuck Bishop]

I like that VH 1/2 frame 2 barrel set with hang tags and price list. 1 gun covers all your small game needs. 1/2 frames are scarce, we currently estimate no more than 250 made and have 85 serial numbers logged. We know of maybe 5 total 2 barrel sets.

[Bill Murphy]

I wonder who owns that rare gun? It may be the rarest gun in the auction.

[David Livesay]

I just put in 2 bids....

[Dean Romig]

I wonder who owns that rare gun? It may be the rarest gun in the auction.

Rare isn’t the best description for that Parker, but unique or 1of1 is likely more accurate.





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[Mike Koneski]

I like that VH 1/2 frame 2 barrel set with hang tags and price list. 1 gun covers all your small game needs. 1/2 frames are scarce, we currently estimate no more than 250 made and have 85 serial numbers logged. We know of maybe 5 total 2 barrel sets.

You're biased!! :shock::rotf::corn:

[Victor Wasylyna]

I would have expected a 1/2 frame 12 gauge with 28 inch barrels to weigh less than 7 1/16 pounds. Cool gun though, particularly if you are into plural barrel sets (not my jam).

-Victor

[Bill Murphy]

Dean, I hope you were referring to the two barrel set 1/2 frame. I was.

[Dylan Rhodes]

My items came and went it seems….

[Dean Romig]

Dean, I hope you were referring to the two barrel set 1/2 frame. I was.

Nope… I was referring to the 1 of 1 AAHE double trap with the finger grips.





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[David Livesay]

I thought I had won lot #67, but it went for one bid over mine. If I hadn't already bought one Parker gun this week I would have went higher. I think someone got a good deal on this one.
https://bid.guyetteanddeeter.com/lots/view/5-28P60T/scarce-transitional-parker-vh-grade-12-bore-shotgun-in-high-original-condition

[Daryl Corona]

[QUOTE=Dean Romig;444903]Nope… I was referring to the 1 of 1 AAHE double trap with the finger grips.


Wasn't that JD's grandfather's gun?

[Dean Romig]

Yes, Great-grandfather’s





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[Dean Romig]

I thought I had won lot #67, but it went for one bid over mine. If I hadn't already bought one Parker gun this week I would have went higher. I think someone got a good deal on this one.
https://bid.guyetteanddeeter.com/lots/view/5-28P60T/scarce-transitional-parker-vh-grade-12-bore-shotgun-in-high-original-condition


WOW… $750 is a steal for that one!!





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[David Livesay]

WOW… $750 is a steal for that one!!





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Dean it sold for $1500

[Bill Murphy]

Dean is an insider with the auction house. Just kidding of course.

[Dave Tercek]

Do the prices now listed for today's auction include the buyers premium ?
Thank you

[Reggie Bishop]

Yes the sold prices include the premium.

[Kevin McCormack]

I wonder who owns that rare gun? It may be the rarest gun in the auction.

I think it belongs to our friend in FL. The one with the 'Blingy' wife.

[Ed Blake]

Someone got an interesting Purdey 8 gauge for $3,750.

[Jerry Harlow]

Yes the sold prices include the premium.

I did not understand that the prices included the buyer's premium of 20%. Are you sure?

[Mike Koneski]

Yes they do.

[Mike Koneski]

I did a long shot bid last week on that Lefever 8g. I bid $1500 figuring it would be low but one never knows. Maybe I’d get lucky? That gun went for $3000 which is cheap for an 8g! Anyone from PGCA win that Lefever??

[Ian Civco]

I thought I had won lot #67, but it went for one bid over mine. If I hadn't already bought one Parker gun this week I would have went higher. I think someone got a good deal on this one.
https://bid.guyetteanddeeter.com/lots/view/5-28P60T/scarce-transitional-parker-vh-grade-12-bore-shotgun-in-high-original-condition

I agree, but I’m gun shy relative to the 12 gauges. I try and chase down small bores and come up empty handed as it’s a game I can’t afford to play.

[David Livesay]

I agree, but I’m gun shy relative to the 12 gauges. I try and chase down small bores and come up empty handed as it’s a game I can’t afford to play.

I was going to try to get into the small bore Parker game but decided I would rather have 2-3 nice original 12ga. guns to 1 small bore. In the end they will sell for about the same $’s

[Bill Murphy]

The VHE .410 skeet at $132,000 will make someone a nice quail gun.

[Ian Civco]

The VHE .410 skeet at $132,000 will make someone a nice quail gun.

Does anyone actually think this shotgun will actually be fired, with that kind of money into it?

[Pete Lester]

Does anyone actually think this shotgun will actually be fired, with that kind of money into it?

Or carried through the brush with a risk of dropping it.

[Dylan Rhodes]

I wonder sometimes how many items in these auctions go home with folks who didn’t even know they wanted it. Specifically items that are already above the estimate after pre bid ends. Live bidding starts…cricket's…. Eventually someone bites and now all of the sudden 3 or 4 people are going at it. Seems like keeping up with the Jones.

I guess that’s one of the advantages of taking things to auction.

[Ian Civco]

As of Wednesday morning, there were ZERO bids on this .410. Pre auction estimate of $35 to $55k. Wednesday evening I intended to place a bid in the $20k to $25k range and see where it goes and it was already up to $32,500 by then.

Yes, several items in this auction actually sold below the low end estimate, including the 20% premium.

It must be nice to have $132,000 to burn with little impact on the bottom line.

[Andrew Sacco]

I’ve learned the hard way there is always someone smarter and richer and with different priorities than me and that’s ok. You just have to be content and realistic. There are probably a lot of people who are envious you would even bid $25,000 on a gun and to them it’s like you’re the wealthy one. It’s all relative. Like I said in the other thread that this is good for the brand overall. Keeps the legend of old reliable kind of going, you know?

[tom tutwiler]

Swing and a miss on 2 bids. I was close as the next highest bidder won both. However, who knows how high that next highest bidder would have gone. PS. I found out later I had lost. Getting into a bidding war seldom works out imo.

[Ian Civco]

I’ve learned the hard way there is always someone smarter and richer and with different priorities than me and that’s ok. You just have to be content and realistic. There are probably a lot of people who are envious you would even bid $25,000 on a gun and to them it’s like you’re the wealthy one. It’s all relative. Like I said in the other thread that this is good for the brand overall. Keeps the legend of old reliable kind of going, you know?

I totally get that. Probably less than 1% of the population would ever spend over $25k for a shotgun. And it’s still a lot of money. That’s why it’s depressing to find that kind of money still was only less than a quarter of what it brought.

I think next auction I’ll set my sights on a really nice 12 or 16 gauge so at least I come home with something.

[Dylan Rhodes]

I thought there were some deals in this auction. Unfortunately I wasn’t going to be able to follow along so I had to pre-load my bids on my items of interest. Turns out, the deals were not on my items. I’m sure Josh and company will pull together another nice round of Parker’s for us to get jealous over in September. I agree with Andy, the legend lives on through these platforms.

[Dean Romig]

Huh… when I looked at that gun on the G&D website it showed $750.
I must have done something wrong…

Bill, I have no connection to G&D other than my good friendship, like so many others have, with Josh.





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[David Livesay]

Swing and a miss on 2 bids. I was close as the next highest bidder won both. However, who knows how high that next highest bidder would have gone. PS. I found out later I had lost. Getting into a bidding war seldom works out imo.

I made a novice mistake on lot #67. I had put in bids on lots #66 & 67. I just put in the opening bid price which was $1250 on lot 66 which sold for a lot more. When lot 67 started it went to $1250 which is what I thought I had bid, and they were asking for $1500 so I thought I was winning but when it ended, I realized that the opening bid was only $1000. :cuss::banghead:

[J. Scott Hanes]

You are not the first one to do that!! Also, I lost out on an SBT a couple years ago because the bidding started at 9:00 am...on the east coast! Me, on Central time. Sheesh!

[Stephen Hodges]

I got lucky. Threw in a low ball bid five minutes before the gun came to auction and won it. I was very surprised.

[John Davis]

It all comes down to how bad you want it and how deep your pockets are.

[Bill Murphy]

John, after reading the post about the SCI convention, I think I know now who has the deep pockets.

[John B White]

Missed my opportunity at Poulins today, was in transit and eying a Parker SBT “upgraded” to an “A1” special. Had gold setters, pheasant, geese and Parker Brothers script. Also… a setters head carved into the buttstock. So wrong but I wanted it so bad, lol. After watching the bidding these past couple days, I figured it might go for crazy money. I was wrong. I pulled into a parking lot a couple of lots before this was offered. I had apparently switched cell towers or something as I was scrambling to re log in to bid, only seeing it pass before my eyes for $3250. Within my target range, dammit. Saved by the gavel? Dunno. But if one of you guys bought it and aren’t satisfied….i know a guy.

[Mills Morrison]

There were 3 28 gauges in the G&D auction in a row that seemed great deals to me.

[Gerald McPherson]

I thought I had won lot #67, but it went for one bid over mine. If I hadn't already bought one Parker gun this week I would have went higher. I think someone got a good deal on this one.
https://bid.guyetteanddeeter.com/lots/view/5-28P60T/scarce-transitional-parker-vh-grade-12-bore-shotgun-in-high-original-condition
High condition with pitting on the trigger plate and some on the receiver!! Not the first I've seen like that.

[GunnerGrilli]

I must say I am continually impressed with the number of high quality and provenanced Parker's that constantly appear at the Guyette and Deeter Auctions.


Kudos to Josh, John and the team over at G&D.


I hope that some of the good folks here at the PGCA were able to acquire a number of these fine Parkers.



Bobby

[Craig Larter]

I really liked lot 61 a VHE 16a 28" straight grip in super condition, in my sweet spot for best quality era Parker guns and engraving 183477. I lost and it sold for $10200 for a VHE!!! Good for the consignor but that is BIG BUCKS in my world for a V graded. I did consider a bid but before I could hit the BID Button it went to the moon. That kind of money buys a 20ga DHE 20ga in decent condition.

I did win the Will Herevin Black duck lot 467 an early Charlestown, Susquehanna Flats maker. I have only hunted on the Flats a few times but needed a Cecil County decoy to remind me of the golden era of waterfowl hunting. Heverin made all his decoys by hand without the use of a duplicating lathe. Heverin made his first decoys about 1885. 99% of decoys from the Flats are divers and the great majority/most have been repainted. The huge rigs on the Flats were used for many years and need to be repainted by the market hunters and later by the guides for the well to do. Puddle duck decoys from this region are rare and even rarer in original condition.

[Bill Murphy]

Craig, speaking of Susquehanna black ducks, the lot #468 Bob McGaw black duck brought about four grand. What's with that? My McGaw canvasback from the A.J. Cummings spread was a gift from A.J. Junior, as a thank you for giving him a great Golden. The Golden was still going strong when A.J. died at 95 a few years ago.

[Craig Larter]

McGaw decoys bring very little money because his production was lathe produced in huge numbers. His pre 1929 hand chopped decoys sell for higher prices. Most production was divers and sell for a few hundred dollars, blacks made before 1929 bring good prices.

[Bill Murphy]

OK, Craig, here goes. A.J. and I had a long relationship that involved fooling with guns, drinking bourbon, and freeloading at some friends' Eastern Shore Dorcester County RSA. A.J.'s dad and his friends were serious Potomac River waterfowlers, headquartered below Washington D.C. at Fort Washington, Maryland where Henry Bartholomew, "Doc" and Nash Buckingham hunted canvasbacks. A.J.'s dad and his McGaw spread were discussed in a Decoy magazine article a few years ago. When we were in his basement recreation room, having an Ezra Brooks, we were a room away from an overflowing closet full of McGaw canvasbacks, and another room full of his extensive working gun collection. What a life we live.

[Arthur Shaffer]

I didn't buy any Parkers but did buy three guns I had been watching. I was watching around 40 guns in all just to follow the prices ( I tend to buy a lot of other types of guns than Parkers). I bid on 8 guns total, and only won the three. Two of the other five were guns I tried to buy and lost to the sytem as before. On these two, I was willing to bid several thousand more, but couldn't place a bid. This happens every auction. On the three I bought, I had placed bids at the level I was willing to pay, and they were started and bid up for me successfully. They were relatively inexpensive and I actually got them at good prices. The other two were much more expensive and I had entered minimum bids ahead of time. With these two and a couple of last minute alternate bids I was never able to complete a final bid before the hammer fell. Prebids execute quickly but internet live bids require a "bid" and then a "confirm bid" step. In 4 or 5 cases, I hit "Bid" then "Confirm" and they never registered before the hammer. The bid itself always made it because because I recieved messages that my "bid of X Dollars" was outbid, but I never recieve credit for the bid until it is too late. I have talked to other people who have the same experience. The bidding for the high value guns stretches to incredible lengths (as it should) but to make up for this given the time issues, the length of time per item goes to sometimes unworkable lengths on the lower valued items (and these are often not trivial amounts). In my case, the sellers lost several thousand dollars they might have realized on just two items. These were not think about it and bid too late; these were quick competitive bids with final calls of a few seconds. To put a blunt point on it, they are selling too many items in a fixed amount of time from the buyers viewpoint.

One change I believe they could make would be to go to a system that Cowan's auction used and uses. (He is the long time Cincinnati house who has been a Militaria and Weapons appraiser on Antiques Road Show for decades). They have merged recently with a large national chain but still do their own auctions. They hold regular weapons auctions which are two day events. The bulk of their lots are sold though a seven to ten day internet only auction on the first day and the significant items are sold live on the following day. The internet bidding allows the final bid haggling go on as long as necessary and the time of the live auctions is shortened. All the lots are available for review, and if someone wants to see an item in the first auction before bidding, they can review it the day before and place an online bid, if they are attending the live auction. I think this system would allow for equitable bidding on all the lots while maximizing income for the sellers and the house while cutting down on the length of the auction.

[Mike Koneski]

I got lucky. Threw in a low ball bid five minutes before the gun came to auction and won it. I was very surprised.

It's nice when a plan falls together!

[Steven Wilson]

I was looking at the Parker .410 that was owned by Connecticut lieutenant governor Roy Wilcox. It was one of the first six made, all ordered together and used extensively at my club, where he was a 50+ year member. His hunting partner was Charlie Parker Jr (the only reason that batch was made) and the upland game back then was wild quail. In Connecticut! If someone here got it, I have some club history on it. The Hammonassett Fishing Association in Madison, CT. I was willing to go to 35-40K to return it to its original happy hunting ground. I was stunned how fast it went past 100K.

[edgarspencer]

I was willing to go to 35-40K to return it to its original happy hunting ground.

I don't know where it's going, Steve, but it's been right here in CT all along. Pains me to say, only 10 miles away.

[Craig Larter]

[QUOTE=Bill Murphy;445031]OK, Craig, here goes. A.J. and I had a long relationship that involved fooling with guns, drinking bourbon, and freeloading at some friends' Eastern Shore Dorcester County RSA. A.J.'s dad and his friends were serious Potomac River waterfowlers, headquartered below Washington D.C. at Fort Washington, Maryland where Henry Bartholomew, "Doc" and Nash Buckingham hunted canvasbacks. A.J.'s dad and his McGaw spread were discussed in a Decoy magazine article a few years ago. When we were in his basement recreation room, having an Ezra Brooks, we were a room away from an overflowing closet full of McGaw canvasbacks, and another room full of his extensive working gun collection. What a life we live.[/QUOT E]

Your a lucky man to have participated in the last days of the Susquehanna flats golden era of hunting. How sad it is that a once meca is now just a shadow of it's by gone days. We only have the wooden decoys to remind us of what was once was.