General consensus of repro values
 

Seeing how well the reproductions did at Rock Island, what’s the general consensus on values of these?
From what I can see they are not eligible for use in the Vintage Parker events.
Is the value in these as a beautifully well made gun, just not a Parker?

Well, exactly how well did they do at RIA? Can you give us a list of features, gauges, and prices so we can comment? A few years ago, a 28 two barrel set with good features sold on gunbroker for ten thousand dollars. I think things have settled down a bit since then. However, today a 28 with one set of 28" barrels, double triggers and condition may sell for more than seven thousand. Twenties, some down in the fours. In my opinion, the Repro is the greatest gun to be made in the last fifty years. It's just great that you can still buy one almost forty years after the last one was made.

Here you go Bill.

http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34943

I guess I estimated fairly correctly with 20s down in the fours and a good featured 28s up around seven. It won't be long until those 28" double trigger guns are all gone to collections. So far, so good but they are hard to find. I think I had to pay over seven for a 28 gauge double trigger 28" gun to complete an identical three gun consecutive number set. Of course the guy bidding against me wasn't completing a set, he was just buying a scarce gun.

I remember going into Jaqua's after the liquidation sale was over and they had what they had left stacked like cordwood in the center of the floor. Your choice $1895. I think they went even lower eventually. They had what I would estimate to be a big pickup bed stacked full.

I always wanted a 28, but all you could find was short barrels and single triggers. Plus, I considered them really heavy for a short barrel 28.

I would probably buy them all now if I had a time machine.

Were they not that popular when new to sell for $1895? Or was that a stress sale to get them sold?

Someone may correct me but I think when word got out that parts were almost unobtainable buyers became a little nervous and sales went down.

Having "lost" the production facility in 1989, other manufacturers worldwide were sought, but it was found that the cost to have another facility produce them of equal quality would not allow for a decent return for the investors -- even if they were to charge $10,000.00 (~$22,300.00 equivilency in today's dollars) for a single gun. Post 1989 sales had slowed to the point where they were closed out starting in 1995, prior to that they last retailed at $3370. Here's an ad for the closeout:

The closeout, beginning in 1995, occurred years before most parts were lost to a 1999 hurricane and the subsequent flooding of a warehouse in which the parts were stored.