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That made me laugh Randy.... me "sophisticated"...
Okay, I'll be a sophisticated buyer.... see, I can't even say it without laughing. .
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It is a veritable "Rubics Cube" matrix of condition, engravers, features, provenance etc...In my opinion undefinable as a rule..
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02-20-2019, 03:32 PM | #15 | ||||||
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Speaking of age vs. value . . . wouldn't a Parker that was built with the replaceable wear plate in ~1905 and later have a little more added value than those built previous to the wear plate?
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I will ask this question. If presented with two Parker guns, new in the box, exact same age and configuration, would they still have absolutely equal value?
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Depends on which one has the nicest box!
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02-20-2019, 04:10 PM | #18 | ||||||
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or the nicest wood, or three dogs instead of four birds on the bottom, or who engraved the gun, or one has darker case colors, and on and on and on....including which has the nicest box!
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02-20-2019, 04:12 PM | #19 | |||||||
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There's the BIG question. You said nothing about condition Mark and that particular factor is and has always been the most deciding factor on a Parker's value.... Condition, condition, and of course, condition. .
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New, same age and configuration - equal value? |
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New, same age and configuration - equal value?
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1.) Notice first, Parker Bros. got the same price for them. So yes (then and now [for me]), they have equal value in the market place (in general). 2.) I would still want to get to examine them to pick out which one I get to buy and keep. I have seen three (3) from 1926 that are all Grade 3 and appear on the same page in Price & Fjestad. The journeyman engravers’ work (not the dogs and birds) are in the same patterns, but different enough to notice and I have preferences there. I might even pay a little more to get the one I liked the best. So, not “absolutely equal value” to me.
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