Paris Auction

Spill the deets.

.410 single shot India conversions - made for prison guards, rural police, some border guards - should be cheap and common. Because, well, they ARE cheap and common.
 
Yesterday you could go to the website, click on the may 30th auction date then pick proxybid and scroll through all the items and it would still show you what everything went for. It still may be like that, but I can't check as I am on my phone right now.
 
On May 23rd at the Cranbrook gun show one sold for $600 and it was in very well worn condition. The bore was shiny and bright but the rest of it was around 60% overall. A lot of people looked at that rifle and made offers. The seller finally dropped his price from $700 because he was getting zero response. The next fellow that came along an offered $600 got the rifle.

I have seen quite a few of those rifles but to hear that they are numerous or common doesn't really strike true IMHO. They were made in very limited quantities for a specific purpose to be used by a specific group. Maybe most of them came into Canada?? I don't know so maybe someone that knows could enlighten us.

I remember passing on the Indian 2A and 2AI rifles because I felt they were to expensive for their condition to warrant the cost. Not only that the few I had the opportunity to shoot had .310 bores and didn't shoot surplus Nato spec ammo well. They aren't nearly so pricey in the US but not that many stayed in Canada after International Firearms imported them. I guess most of them went south of the border?? Look at the prices on them now.

Just wait and see what the No4 MkII Pakistani Ordnance rifles will be worth when it finally twigs how much action most of those rifles have seen. Mine is a tack driver and loves the pulled bullets out of the Eastern Com Bloc surplus ammo. It has a .310 bore as well.

Over the last 5-6 years prices on the Lee series firearms and their variants have gone through the roof. Whether they will stay that high is another question.
 
Yup, that's why I don't even bother with auctions anymore...
Not really a fair comment in these parts. I've attended a few auctions when I see something that catches my eye. If you discipline yourself and don't get caught up in a buying frenzy, you can do all right. I've mentioned in other posts that I bring a calculator, determine what I would be willing to spend (factoring in the 23% over my bid) and I stick to that. A lot depends on the market and the audience as well. In some of the country auctions, the guys are looking for hunting rifles so you can get some deals on military items, as an example. I bought a beautiful babied '43 Long Branch with the PH 5C target sight for $336. Given that the sight alone goes for $250. in these parts, I thought that was a pretty fair deal. It had the fore end cut down and I restored it back to factory spec. It's still one of my favourite rifles.
 
I'm curious how many members actually take these proxibid auctions seriously?

Every gun auction I look at in Canada the photos SUCK and so do the descriptions.

I have heard a lot of horror stories of the gun showing up with a major issue or bubba work that was not shown or described, or even strait up fakery. I have driven to auctions just to discover what looked like had potential in the photos was total junk in person. A complete waste of a day just because nobody at the auction house has any photography or gun knowledge.

-Steve
 
$900 + + for a .410 Lee Musket?? :runaway: My goodness! I have two of those old things, one original and one chambered to take 3". A couple of people must have wanted one badly. :eek:
 
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