Coming Auction in the US has some real rarities?

[averageplinker]

I suspect you don't see a selection like that anywhere very often. Of them all only the Giffard's appeal to me (but not my wallet).
Rich.

[mrto]

There are some fantastically desirable antique air rifles and pistols there IMO.I hope you'll be buying many and posting your usual great pics and reviews in due course!

[45flint]

There are some fantastically desirable antique air rifles and pistols there IMO.I hope you'll be buying many and posting your usual great pics and reviews in due course!

Way out of my price ranges!

[cinedux]

makes me feel quite dizzy.

[Abasmajor]

I paid around the top end of the estimates for a Parker and Certus in better condition than those listed here in the UK some time ago, so not too far away from our own realised prices for these particular pistols anyway. The estimate for the pair of Westley Richards Highest Possible pistols also seems very reasonable for the UK if the figures quoted prove to be realistic

Brian

[oldcurmudgeon]

It's my bet that all if not most come from the same collection.

[ccdjg]

It's my bet that all if not most come from the same collection.

Yes, the airgun lots come from the superb collection of the late Ingvar Alm, who passed away last January. He was a really great collector and a nice guy, one of the old school who had no truck with such gimicky concepts as the internet and emails. This made exchanging photo's of guns with him somewhat slow, but nevertheless he was a great help in researches for my book. The auction is just part 1 of his collection, and the rest will follow at some unspecified future date. The second part is likely to contain more affordable items, which still doesn't help us collectors much in the UK given the near impossibility of gettting airguns shipped from the USA these days. We will just have to watch and drool.

Some specific items to look out for next time would be various Haviland and Gunn pistols, a mint long barrel Haenel 28, and a selection of Lincoln Jeffriies pistols, including an extended cylinder Lincoln, a small backstrap cocking pistol, and a magnificent nickelled large backstrap cocker.