Baltimore Antique Arms Show March 17-18

[Bill Murphy]

The Baltimore Show is this weekend. Kevin McCormack and Bill Murphy will be in our normal location, tables B-4 and B-5. Others normally in attendance are PGCA guys Bill Mullins, Charlie Price, James Baker, Ken Waite, father and son, Jim Hall, Mark Conrad and others. If you want to meet our leaders, this is the place. Show opens at 9:00 AM Saturday.

[charlie cleveland]

give us a report on the parkers when you get done BILL... hope you see a 8 ga or two... have fun.... ill be thinking about the gun show tommorrow while im listening for a big tom... charlie

[Bill Murphy]

Nothing in Parkers really rang my bell, but there were a few nice hammer guns for shooters. Come on down.

[6pt-Sika]

I was informed this week by two fellows that atteneded a SxS Clays shoot somewhere last weekend that a hammerless Parker 8 gauge they saw at the shoot would be in Baltimore this weekend for sale . I got this info because both these guys know I want one .

Unfortunately I will not be attending this year . Anyway as the saying goes .

"I was told it would be there" !

[Bill Murphy]

It was there. Add our former leader, Art Wheaton, to the attendance list, as well as my neighbors, George Blair and Jerry Smith.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

It was there.

Might you elaborate a bit as to the grade . condition and the sellers asking price ?

[Pony Boy]

Still don't know how to post pictures? You are one of the first to ask for pictures when other people do posts.

[Bill Murphy]

Yup, that's me. I am a student of our language, very little a scientist or engineer. If I ever learn how to install a computer or take a picture, it will be because my lovely wife is threatening to take up residence elsewhere unless I get myself situated in the twenty first century. Today was a bit more interesting with a high condition VHE28 gauge skeet surfacing and a great CHE 12 offered for sale. Of course, there are probably hundreds of C grades out there with geese on the floorplate, but I had never seen one. The best early back action lifter I have ever seen or heard of went home with the owner because I forgot to check back with him today about my offer. Or should I say "about adjusting my offer".

[6pt-Sika]

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 .

[6pt-Sika]

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 .