Interesting "C" on Gunbroker

[Bruce Day]

"Restored" means returned to original condition. A better description would have been "restored as altered".
Most restorations are not true restorations.
I like the case color job that was done on it, but its always so hard to look at case colors in photos. A C 20ga 24" is indeed a rare gun, I don't know whether it is the only one, but this gun is certainly interesting. I own a DHE 20ga 24", also a rare gun, and it is a wonderful little hunting gun and nothing to carry at under 6 lbs.
I think if I had to publicly sell an expensive gun, Gunbroker would not be my choice. There are other venues that can better present such a gun to the right audience.

[Dean Romig]

[QUOTE=Bruce Day;50279I think if I had to publicly sell an expensive gun, Gunbroker would not be my choice. There are other venues that can better present such a gun to the right audience.[/QUOTE]

I agree Bruce. My choice would be to place it with one of the better gun auction houses or consign it with a major gun dealer like Puglisi or Ivory Beads... there are other avenues as well.

[Brush Buster]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I agree Bruce. My choice would be to place it with one of the better gun auction houses or consign it with a major gun dealer like Puglisi or Ivory Beads... there are other avenues as well.

Dean and Bruce ,I sell on Gun Broker but I would agree , A few years back I had a beautiful 20 Ga. VHE and a 12 Ga. VHE ,both were excellent original condition , there are costs involved with consigning guns ,but Jim Thinney at Ivory Beads ,sold the pair of them easily and I couldn't have been happier , The 20 was very high condition but the 12 Ga. was such high condition ,I wouldn't carry it and it wouldn't suprise me if the next owner didn't carry it as well , The lower grades in high 90 percent plus condition really are rare guns and the " Better Dealers " already have folks waiting in the wings for these " Cream Puff Guns " ! With that said ,Gun Broker has some good guns on it and also some Good People selling , I have bought many nice guns on there ! Russ

[Bill Murphy]

For $52,000, I would rather see a picture of the PGCA letter before I bother to look at a picture of the gun. I can put up with a few warts on the gun better than I can put up with a letter that shows that the gun is a fake.

[Austin W Hogan]

The letter, and pertinent tables from TPS are shuffled into the photos.

There are four pertinent points of decision relative to this Parker:

1 28 ga
2 24 inch barrels
3 CHE - only 24 inch 28 ga CHE archived.
4 Fully restored

Relative to 1; were this 410 ga several bids would be noted

Relative to 3; there are many thousand un archived twentieth century Parkers - would discovery of another 28ga/24 inch/ CHE destroy the uniqueness of this gun?

Best, Austin

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Austin W Hogan

Relative to 3; there are many thousand un archived twentieth century Parkers - would discovery of another 28ga/24 inch/ CHE destroy the uniqueness of this gun?

Best, Austin

I think if that turned out to be the case the value (not the asking price) of the gun might be reduced by 10 - 15 percent.