While you may or may not agree with what I'm about to say , this is what was relayed to me about an hour ago .

I have one friend thats a civil war collector that gets a table there every year and he is rather astute in the things dealing in that time period . Also had a gunsmith buddy and another friend up there buying parts and trying to move a couple items .

Anyway the consensus from the 3 was everything was a bit overly inflated pricewise this year . And buyers were a bit more price deflated then usual .

Now I suppose that can be said about most anything . But thats what they told me . I think my gunsmith buddy took no less then 12 items up for sale and they came back with those 12 and a Hepburn . As well as a pocketfull of parts for variouse things at the shop .

The two years previouse to this we typically take about 10-20 items and generally move 75% of them . And our prices are what I would call relatively the same each year . By that I mean we set our needed profit the same each year . Of the stuff we take usually 60-75% is consignment stuff . So we are kinda handcuffed on what we can do with those pieces .

Bill, please tell us about the geese on the floorplate... flying, standing or swimming?

I had a CHE with one goose flying on the floorplate... sold it... no regrets... I'm not a fan of Anschutz.

Flying in bright colors.

Nice!

If I had gone with the idea of looking for just Parkers, I would have been disappointed, however I also love nice Winchesters, and there was an over-abundance of those (note to self: Don't break Dean's heart telling him about the pistol gripped 1890). I'm really out of touch with the market prices of these guns, but still managed to find a few nice ones to bring home, in addition to nearly all the guns I took. I did sell a large assortment of collector ammo; enough to pay for one of the Winchesters, and sights for some I had at home.
I think what I enjoyed the most was visiting with new and old Parker friends, especially the banter and joking at Bill Murphy's table.

Oh yes I was informed today tha the overly inflated price on the 8 gauge was $35,000 .

Again thats what I was told from folks who were there .

Different 8 gauge. J.D. Shank's eight gauge GH is probably sitting on a $12000 price tag. Maybe there was another eight gauge at the show but I didn't see it.

No I expect you're correct as my gunsmith buddy is dislexic . He may have misread or inadvertantly seen a price on something else . Or he may very well have exagerated a bit .

Just outta vuriosity what would you say a fair market price would be for the Shank GH 8 gauge . Don't mean a steal or whatever but a fair market price for both buyer and seller ?

Did either 8 gauge gun have steel barrels? Steel versus damascus or twist make at least a 100 percent difference, pricewise.