Paul Switzer Auction Report
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Agreed. $2400 for an Inglis HP with stock and webbing. It must have been a testosterone race.
It had BOTH original NUMBERED matching magazines, and although I didn't personally expect that one I believe I overheard that it was in pristine condition. I have never seen such a complete CH Inglis rig in my life. With that sort of rarity, I'm really not surprised at all and I think the new owner did fine.
-Steve
You did great on that one!! There were some excellent buys during that sale.
You did great on that one!! There were some excellent buys during that sale.[/QUOTE]
Thanks! I am happy with it thats for sure. It feels much better then a refurb, very smooth and slick with no grainey metal or grind marks. Feels like a totally different pistol.
Thanks! I am happy with it thats for sure. It feels much better then a refurb, very smooth and slick with no grainey metal or grind marks. Feels like a totally different pistol.
Thanks! I am happy with it thats for sure. It feels much better then a refurb, very smooth and slick with no grainey metal or grind marks. Feels like a totally different pistol.
That was one of the best deals in the Wolverine sale.
The one at Switzers was very early, 1936! It also came with the holster, I'm pretty sure it was a vet bring back. It could have even been brought home by a Canadian volunteer fighting in the Spanish civil war, who knows? Regardless, it was a rare piece of iron and for $375 I think it was one of the sleepers that didn't get too much attention at the auction. The P38 that sold for $625 may have been a sleeper as well, I heard later it was police marked and they bring a large premium although I didn't get a chance to look at that pistol, did anyone else see if it was in fact a legit police P38 ?
-Steve
Yes, it appeared it was a proper era Russian holster with nice markings inside the flap!
To be honest, I wanted to bid on it myself, but my friend who drove with me to the auction was going for it and he would have killed me if I tried bidding against him. He ended up picking that one up, I'll try to pressure him into posting some pics.
-Steve
David, I will try to get my friend to post some pics soon - were you at the auction?
The majority went to Collectors Source, I'm guessing you will see them for sale as dewats soon. I think I remember only one being sold to an individual who asked to have it dewatted.
-Steve
Enough to make a guy cry.
We USED TO live in a Free Country.
Not any more.
Our heritage is being welded up and chopped into bits, and all we have to show for it is a Liberal Party flag that nobody was allowed to vote on.
I was in Wainwright the other day. Fellow I know there has a Smith & Wesson top-break, 8-inch barrel, .44 American. About a thousand-dollar piece..... or it WAS. He HAS a PAL. RCMP welded a chunk of rebar into the barrel, 6 more into the chambers..... and made HIM pay for the destruction of his own property. He paid, of course; it was a family gun from 'way back and he didn't want to lose it. Some freedom.
Somehow, "#### and click" just ain't up there with "pukka-pukka-pukka".
We USED TO live in a Free Country.
Not any more.
Our heritage is being welded up and chopped into bits, and all we have to show for it is a Liberal Party flag that nobody was allowed to vote on.
I was in Wainwright the other day. Fellow I know there has a Smith & Wesson top-break, 8-inch barrel, .44 American. About a thousand-dollar piece..... or it WAS. He HAS a PAL. RCMP welded a chunk of rebar into the barrel, 6 more into the chambers..... and made HIM pay for the destruction of his own property. He paid, of course; it was a family gun from 'way back and he didn't want to lose it. Some freedom.
Somehow, "#### and click" just ain't up there with "pukka-pukka-pukka".
God alone knows.
Police were at his house for some reason and "confiscated" it, just refused to give it back until it had been completely destroyed.
He could have sued and got a Court Order releasing his property, but he didn't know anything about courtrooms except that they were bad places to go. As far as he knew, the cops WERE the Law. Some of them (thank God a minority) certainly seem to ACT like they are IN CONTROL. It's an old problem with people in Authority; it seems to go to some of their heads. I had a Vancouver cop tell me, 45 years ago, "Listen, Punk: I make the law around here!" I was a member of a club and had gone to the police station to get a Form 42 (the old range permit) so I could go to the range. It took 6 months to get, eventually.
If you can keep people ignorant of what the law really IS, and throw your weight around enough, you can get away with just about anything, just by buffaloing people into submission.
Showing "deference to Authority" is said to be one of the defining characteristics of Canadians. Get the wrong people in the offices of Authority, and it can be a very short step from "deference TO Authority" to "fear OF Authority". The one implies a quasi-egalistic state of affairs, the other is definitely a master-servant relationship.
Sorry, but I don't want to be anyone's servant, not when I have to pay their exorbitant salary, too!
Sometimes, I wish Canadians were a lot more LIKE Americans. At least Americans stand up for their rights, even if they are wrong some of the time.
End of rant.
Police were at his house for some reason and "confiscated" it, just refused to give it back until it had been completely destroyed.
He could have sued and got a Court Order releasing his property, but he didn't know anything about courtrooms except that they were bad places to go. As far as he knew, the cops WERE the Law. Some of them (thank God a minority) certainly seem to ACT like they are IN CONTROL. It's an old problem with people in Authority; it seems to go to some of their heads. I had a Vancouver cop tell me, 45 years ago, "Listen, Punk: I make the law around here!" I was a member of a club and had gone to the police station to get a Form 42 (the old range permit) so I could go to the range. It took 6 months to get, eventually.
If you can keep people ignorant of what the law really IS, and throw your weight around enough, you can get away with just about anything, just by buffaloing people into submission.
Showing "deference to Authority" is said to be one of the defining characteristics of Canadians. Get the wrong people in the offices of Authority, and it can be a very short step from "deference TO Authority" to "fear OF Authority". The one implies a quasi-egalistic state of affairs, the other is definitely a master-servant relationship.
Sorry, but I don't want to be anyone's servant, not when I have to pay their exorbitant salary, too!
Sometimes, I wish Canadians were a lot more LIKE Americans. At least Americans stand up for their rights, even if they are wrong some of the time.
End of rant.
