JAMES JULIA AUCTION OCTOBER 7-9, 2014

[Mills]

I heard about this and it is an asinine law even by Washington standards.

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

I have a dumb question on auctions. How do you follow and see what's going on during the auction? Without being there of course.

[Bill Murphy]

Angel, first, register on a site like Proxibid, find the auction you like, when the auction starts, if you are signed on, you can turn on the audio and listen to the bidding. The screen will show the bidding in real time and allow you to bid by clicking on the "bid now" button. I think you may have to get your credit card approved, always by Proxibid and sometimes by the auction house. By the way, Angel, I received your great gift in the mail yesterday. Thank you so much.

[Pa SxS]

Angel,

I was using Invaluable, not Proxibid to monitor the auction yesterday. I was able to view the lots and bids as they came up but I didn't have audio. Maybe I wasn't doing something right or didn't have my speakers enabled. Perhaps Proxibid allows audio. It would have been nice to have audio. It would also be nice if Julia had a web cam so we could see the action. I'll log on to Proxibid today and see if I get audio.

It seemed to me that most of the guns sold were at the low end of the estimates, of course there were exceptions where the hammer price was towards the upper end of the estimate and in some cases well over the estimate. My gun sold for slightly above the low estimate. I was hoping for more but that's the chance you take at auction. I guess I'll have to change my avitar

[Mills]

I used Proxibid and you can participate as non-bidding participant if you want to watch and not accidentally hit the bid button when the $65,000 Purdey is up.

It seems prices were mixed, but there were some pretty strong prices for some. I crossed an 8 gauge Lefever off my wish list.

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

Thank you guys. And you are welcome Murph!!
BTW how much did the D grade 12 hammer gun go for?? That was a nice one..

[Dean Romig]

That was a great gun. it had a gold grip cap and Bernard barrels.... extremely unusual and the ONLY one made like that.

Hammered at $4,250 to a friend.

[Bill Murphy]

I tried for days to get my Invaluable account signed in, couldn't get in, finally went to Proxibid. I am registered on both sites, just in case. I don't think a video feed would be that interesting. The audio was great. The auctioneer's joke when the Trojans were sold was a classic.

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

That was a great gun. it had a gold grip cap and Bernard barrels.... extremely unusual and the ONLY one made like that.

Hammered at $4,250 to a friend.

Good price. Even with the cut bbls.

[Dean Romig]

Yes, even the ladies who were present laughed... it was cute.

*Good place for a Trojan, by the way*