Kempton Wants

[Binners]

I'll take a few BSA underlevers out for a ride again

[erichtfisherman]

I'll take a few BSA underlevers out for a ride again

My plan scuppered back to the drawing board then.....

[Binners]

My plan scuppered back to the drawing board then.....

Don’t worry Tim, nobody ever buys any, they just pick them up and shuffle them. Last time I took home more than I bought.
I think I would be sad if 3 sold.

We call them thr tyre kickers friends

[Josie & John]

Don’t worry Tim, nobody ever buys any, they just pick them up and shuffle them. Last time I took home more than I bought.
I think I would be sad if 3 sold.

We call them thr tyre kickers friends

Like a muppet I thought too long about a very nice Improved Model B you had last year and it went to someone that didn't dither.

The moral being Binners tends to have some rather nice BSAs on his stall and at very good prices. I think there were a couple of long cylindered CS and shorter C prefixed No 4s at the last fair and others with original BSA aperture sights.

So do as I say and not as I did - if you see a nice rifle on the stall, grab it!

John

[coburn]

Don’t worry Tim, nobody ever buys any, they just pick them up and shuffle them. Last time I took home more than I bought.
I think I would be sad if 3 sold.

We call them thr tyre kickers friends

All were lovely from memory. Hopefully I'll get to shuffle them again on Sunday.

Made me think, is airgun collecting cyclible? If you look at the classic car market, pre war stuff is becoming less sought after, whilst stuff from the 80's is going through the roof.

It's got a lot to do with nostalgia, look at the prices now being realised by early Venom stuff or late Webley's like the Longbow or Tomahawk.

its entirely possible, that people avoid pre war BSA's as they are the "crack cocaine" of collecting, one is never enough, you buy another, get John M's book and before you know it, you're addicted.

[look no hands]

All were lovely from memory. Hopefully I'll get to shuffle them again on Sunday.

Made me think, is airgun collecting cyclible? If you look at the classic car market, pre war stuff is becoming less sought after, whilst stuff from the 80's is going through the roof.

It's got a lot to do with nostalgia, look at the prices now being realised by early Venom stuff or late Webley's like the Longbow or Tomahawk.

its entirely possible, that people avoid pre war BSA's as they are the "crack cocaine" of collecting, one is never enough, you buy another, get John M's book and before you know it, you're addicted.

There was a couple if Tomahawks on a table in the first hall at Birmingham the other week, didn't seem to be attracting any interest, he also had a thumb hole Webley Eclipse standard length, Tim had a nice Eclipse Carbine on his table, now if that had the thumb hole stock on it, then that may have been worth having.