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Originally Posted by Fireball2
It's a good time to b a buyer.


How so? I'm always a buyer! Sometimes I'm a little too aggressive. Ask my wife...


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Gene, That's interesting. I owned #1113 at one time. Pretty gun, didn't have the original sights, the lever casecolors were washed out and the hairline crack at the toe wasn't a hairline crack it was completely broken off at the time. The factory letters that come with it show a number of well known previous owners.

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Everything about it points to it being a 1899 !!!! serial number,barrel address, wood, i think they are a bit off with this discription. The other 1895 also has a cased reciever ,suprised that wasn't mentioned they only made around 100 cased colored 1895's. Don
James Julia had it as an 1899... but made with some 1895 parts?

RIA lost most of the older experienced people they had doing descriptions and they also have almost to many guns than they can deal with (or actually do have to many). I go to the viewing all the time and many of their 'experts' now are quite young. I just bought three lots (15 guns total) from their on-line only auction at a fraction of what they would have brought if cataloged better in smaller lots. The on-line only auctions have a lot of junk, I knew the collector who's estate these were from, so I could sort the good from the bad. I watched some of the other lots sell and the buyers of those will not be very happy when they actually see them, in one lot all the guns were cold blued over pitting.

The family would have done far better putting these in a smaller local auction house, most now list on-line and they would do them individually, or in much smaller lots. I talked to a friend of the family this weekend and they said that many of his guns, mostly 22 rifles, had boxes and that RIA didn't take them so the family threw them away.

RIA also buys some of the lots themselves if they sell low, ... so a poor description could be changed when they go to sell them again..... and if they buy the lot they can subtract the 15%~20% commission instead of add the buyers premium.


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Originally Posted by Rakkasan
Originally Posted by Fireball2
It's a good time to b a buyer.


How so? I'm always a buyer! Sometimes I'm a little too aggressive. Ask my wife...


In a parallel conversation, a buddy of mine who is an avid collector and fisher of bamboo fly rods has noticed a lot of nice rods languishing on eBay. I snagged one myself last month. Go figure...


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Originally Posted by S99VG
Originally Posted by Rakkasan
Originally Posted by Fireball2
It's a good time to b a buyer.


How so? I'm always a buyer! Sometimes I'm a little too aggressive. Ask my wife...


In a parallel conversation, a buddy of mine who is an avid collector and fisher of bamboo fly rods has noticed a lot of nice rods languishing on eBay. I snagged one myself last month. Go figure...


Some good ones on the market, if that's your thing. Selling may not be good right now but the buying is top shelf.


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The Savages are sold, for anyone interested, here are the comparisons of the Julia price to the RIA.

---- Lot’s ----------Price with premium
RIA – Julia ----- Julia --- RIA (with 15%) & description

154 - 1182 $4,600.00 - $7,475.00 First Production Savage Model 1914 Rifle
155 - 1181 $5,750.00 - $5,175‬.00 Factory Engraved Savage Model 1903 Slide Action Rifle
157 - 1151 $25,300.00 - $31,625.00 Savage Victor Grade Model 1899 Lever Action Rifle
158 - 1147 $9,200.00 - $9,200.00 Factory Engraved Savage Model 1899 Featherweight Rifle
159 - xxxx not from JJ's auction - Montreal Home Guard Savage Model 1899 Musket w/ Bayonet
1111 - xxxx "":" """ - Factory Engraved Savage Model 1903 Slide Action Rifle
1112 – 1178 $8,050.00 - $6,325‬.00 Factory Engraved Savage Model 1903 Slide Action Rifle
1113 - 1124 $6,900.00 - $16,100‬.00 /jamesdjulia/lot-1124 - https://www.proxibid.com/ Factory Engraved Savage Model 1899A Takedown Rifle 38-55
1114 - 1100 $16,100.00 -$31,625‬.00 jamesdjulia/lot-1100- - www.proxibid.com Factory Engraved/Inlaid Savage Model 1899 Featherweight Rifle 25-35
3089 - 1137 $24,150.00 -$25,875‬.00 Factory Engraved Savage Model 1895 Deluxe Rifle
3090 - 1147 $18,400.00 -$28,750‬.00 (listed as serial 11008'2' at JJ's s/b 110080) Factory F Grade Engraved Savage Model 1899 Takedown Carbine
3091 - 1105 $12,650.00 -$12,650.00 Factory Engraved Savage Model 1895 Deluxe Lever Action Rifle (not really an 1895)




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Good lord, that's a lot of money!

Having said that, the good Winchester and Colt stuff was at least 2x.
And then there's this... Gustav Young


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The cheapie in that bunch has a "low" bid of 9,000 bucks! Safe to say I will sit this one out..

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