CHE 20 at country farm auction

[Brush Buster]

Hi Dave ! Just thought I would toss it out there ! I just wish I had only $2000, in mine !

[Richard Flanders]

Oh my! What a beauty. I bet he marks it up to at least $2500 to sell it, eh !!

The last farm auction I attended was in my home town in about 1970. Our chemistry/math/physics teacher, "Uncle Dale" had collapsed and passed away while tossing the kitchen leavings to his hogs and there was an auction to dispose of the mountains and sheds full of 'stuff' he had accumulated over the decades. He was an old rural packrat farmer in the purest sense of the word. We all absolutely loved and worshipped that old guy. There's not a single person in my high school class that doesn't have fond memories of and a story to tell about him. A good friend got his old Farmall tractor with a broken frame...."no problem", he said, "we can weld that up"...which they did. I remember being impressed when someone got what they called a "jewelry wagon", which was an old sagging steel-wheeled hay wagon loaded 3' deep with buckets and boxes of nuts, bolts, pipe fittings, electrical parts, tools.. old rusty tools mostly, and just about every kind of scrap of metal one can imagine...for $50. I couldn't believe that's all it was worth and wished that I had $50 to spend.... somehow this C-grade story trumps my paltry experience in spades. How times change, eh?.... or not.....

[C.O.B.]

My luck just doesn't fall that way. The Ithaca sounds like it might have been a nice gun also.

[johnny davis]

does he still have gun and how much,thanks johnny 828-442-6166 anytime tomorrow

[Brush Buster]

I ask who the friend was and never got a reply !

[Ironman5]

He's a dealer so I doubt he would mind giving out his name. Does that break some kind of protocol here on this BBS?

I can't believe no one has reported in that attended the show. I'm alot of things, but a BS'er ain't one of them. I want someone that saw the gun to chime in. If it didn't sell, it will be back in his shop on Tuesday.

This is the same place I bought a 20 gauge DHE for $2200. Oh ye of little faith...

[David]

Whats his name ???????

[ch]

What a beauty Russ!!!!!

[Ironman5]

Stopped in the shop today. The Parker sold for 17K & the Ithaca for $3500 at the Ohio Gun Collector's show last weekend. I'm glad I got the opportunity to finger it up a little before it moved on. He also sold a damascus barreled 20 gauge Parker for $2500. It is still in the shop waiting to be picked up. Seemed like a very nice upland gun for the money. Will be interesting to hear from someone that attended that show...