Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Savage Collectors Photo collection for sale.

Ive been considering this for a while, and have decided to offer my Photo collection for sale here on the forum before taking the hard road and selling them individually on fleabay.

Some may look at my asking price of 2790.00 and say "your nuts" but it is discounted from what I actually have invested. I believe it to be one of the nicest collection of original photographs, real photo post cards, production post cards, news paper archive photos and snap shots centered around the savage rifles that you will find.

Of the 186 photos, one is a reproduction image, eight are post 1950, and one is a risqu� slide. Sixteen are production type postcards.

Most are 1899/99s, three 1895s and two that have savage .22 rifles.

Notable people in the collection are
Marin Sais, silent film star
Bob Waterfield and his wife Jane Russel
Osa Johnson with a Mt. Lion(Her first US hunt)
Richard Bong and his father
Fess Parker
Theodore & Mrs Waldeck, explorers who went looking for Paul Redfern in 1937.

There are photos from the USA, Canada, Mexico, Bolivia and Latvia.

Animals included in the photos are White tail, Mule deer, Coyote, Bear, Snake, Bobcat, Bald Eagle, Elk, Moose, Wolf, Mt Lion, Turkeys, Mt Goat, Ducks, Ocelot and various trapped critters.

Price is firm. Photos are nicely placed in an album as displayed at the last Savage Fest.

I hope somebody buys the whole collection and keeps it in one piece. You've gone to a lot of work in putting this together and it is a tremendous gathering of pictures. Good luck with the sale Gary.

Rod

Thanks Rod, Its been a lot of fun searching. Here is a photo of the album from Rory's fest pics. Photos are attached to acid free paper with acid free corners and are easily removable. Pages are loaded into top load plastic sleeves.

Gary, fix that bloody heading mate. I thought whoa an uncatalogued 99, called a Poto. LOL

I also hope its kept in one piece, would loved to have made over to a fest and looked through it.

Johno

Fixed it, Thanks Im better with pictures than words

Damn Gary, would love to have it but just can't afford it just now but at least I've got your book. Hope your offer to sell works out for you.

Hell thats is only $15 each, thats a bargin only trouble is when I convert it to NZ $ it gets a bit scary because I havn't won lotto yet
I would like to see sombody try to put a collection like that together & really work out how much time & money it would cost.
I hope sombody buys to collection as a whole it would be a shame to split it up
Best of luck Gary
Cheers

Gary does this mean that there will not be a second book?

Did the first not sell well enough??

norm

It does Norm, but not because of sales. I was surprised and grateful that it sold as many as it did.

you did a great job on a beautiful book .

norm

+1000

Hey Make Sure You Don't Sell My Photo's

Here is a cool ebay photo that I missed the end of, it would have been cool to ad seal to the collection.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ESKIMO-SEAL...ostcard-c1940-JACOBS-Photo-/140986678479

Gary,

Those of us who've gotten a chance to know you through your postings here over the years are well aware that this collection was a labor of love for you. It would sure be nice to see this collection stay a part of the Campfire family, but sadly, it's out of my range. This must be a bittersweet decision for you, but I hope you are able to find a buyer who will appreciate these photos as much as we have over the years here on the 'Fire.

Does Savage hav a museum, if so it might be nice to donate them to Savage. Just thinking.

That's a great idea.

When I am ready to get out of it, I think I will donate my whole collection to Savage. God knows my errs or I won't need or be interested in the money.

Gary I have a savage -either a 22HP or 250 that came out of the frozen north ,my then brother in law was with the coast guard and when they were ashore snooping around one day he picked up a rusty savage barrel and action [no internals] would have been mid to late 60s. I still have it

norm

Ive been resisting buying any new photos as I consider how Ill move the ones I have on to someone else, but sometimes the temptation is great. Say a special order stock combined with some unusual game for a rifle. (These are still available)

This is post marked 1913 Orillia, Ont.

1899C w/pistol grip and shotgun buttplate? Nice!