Holts auction

[keith66]

Just had a peek at the auction prices realised so far on Holts auction, £650 for a Webley Mk3 deluxe with factory chequering, thats £845 after fees,
A .25 Bsa underlever made £2900. You got to really want them to pay those prices.

[flogger]

Yes indeed some good prices paid at auction, and like said stick the commission on that ,25 BSA and that makes it around £3770. The buyer certainly wanted that one. Still very interesting to watch and price the guns on offer.

[slug-gun]

Same old story really. The exotic guns go silly, very likely to foreign buyers, whilst the lesser items are 'standard' money or even really good value - ie boxed Webley pistols. I guess most collectors who want a very good one of these have one, so the market is probably fairly saturated?

An as new in the box example however may bring out the 'next level' of buyer, and see the price increase disproportionately however?

[slug-gun]

As am matter of interest that .25 was sold back in 1986 I think it was, by Dennis Hiller, for £500. I remember people saying then how expensive it was! That figure equates to around £1,420 today, and how I would have loved to have bought that .25 for that sum today!

[colin g]

Some good prices reached today, Terry Doe`s old rifle fetched £2300 + com but the Webley tempest Centenary £550 + com. Owner must be happy with that.
Beggers belief what some people want to pay sometimes. Col.

[keith66]

And yet prices of some stuff has fallen horribly, A year ago there was a Charles lancaster tubelock 4 bore muzzleloader on there, cased. It was utterly magnificent & had an estimate of 12 - 16k, failed to make its reserve & iirc someone bid just over 7k on the auction of unsold lots & it wasnt sold. That very gun sold at bonhams 25 years ago for 34k. A lady i know sold her late husbands best english sidelocks last year & they realised far less than he had thought them worth.
English boxlocks are now cheap as chips (or cheaper).
My old spanish sxs is now a piece of scrap iron as far as value goes, Aah well!

[Binners]

Three .25 Imp Mod D rifles have sold at Kempton over the last 5 for less than half that figure.

I might scout around next Sunday 2nd