The fact that a gun "hammered" is no indication that it met reserve.

It simply means that the high bid was recorded.






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Whether it sold or not isn't my intrest when I ask , I'm just curiouse as to how far the bidders were willing to go .

You didn't need to include my quote, as I was not responding to your question.






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But in a roundabout way I was to yours . My aren't we touchy 🤔

I'm not in the least bit touchy Craig. Never have been - never will be. :cheers:






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Strikes me as fiction to suggest a gun has a "real value" that is somehow higher than what the gun brought at one of the country's most well-known, well-advertised and well-attended auctions. Bottom-feeders versus pipe-dreamers, what's the difference? The hammer tells the "true value."

-Victor

But as we live and learn, it sometimes doesn't. Case in point - some recent auctions.:whistle:






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Forrest's A-1 upgrades sold for 14,000 and 5,000. Don't know what the big difference was, except that the 14,000 gun was once described as a Runge gun, but it had Thierry Duguet's initials on it.

Bill, did the upgrade sell for $14,000 or $5000 little confused (but that's easy for me :rolleyes: )

1414, $220,000; 1415, $20,500; 1416, $17,500; 1417, $12,000; 1418, $15,500; 1419, $12,000; 1420, $7,500; 1421, $9,000; 1422, $12,000; 1423, $18,500;
1424, $14,000; 1425, $5,000; 1426, $6,000; 1427, $8,000; 1428, $3,750;
1429, $19,500.
These are the hammer prices and do no include commissions.

I sold 1427 to a member here a few years ago, and am delighted to see he did well also.