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Don't know if anyone saw this auction which ended yesterday. Just incredible what some of these older firearms will fetch!

http://classic.gunauction.com/...cfm?itemnum=14428710
 
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And who says that an idiot scratch will make them a 1911 hard to sell.


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Very cool. "Fire Blue" controls are very appealing. I wonder what it would cost to send a fairly generic Colt series 70 1911A1 to Turnbull to have the small parts done in "fire blue". I'm sure it wouldn't cost $75K.


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Wahoo they take Visa. Smile


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If you're going to spend $75k for a gun, at least it's a hundred year old classic in great shape as opposed to something that has slide cuts and was blinged out.


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Wahoo they take Visa. Smile


But they charge 3% extra for credit cards. That 3% would have more than paid for my Les Baer Stinger Monolith!
 
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3% won't matter to me. I don't have a 75k limit......well that and the inevitable murder at the hands of my wife. Either or won't matter to me. Smile


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On a serious note I TOTALLY get the collector aspect of this but it wouldn't float my boat per say if I had the coin. At the end of the day it's a 1911. A very desirable, cool 1911 but basically an ubiquitous 1911. The fire bluing is awesome though.

If I am dropping that kind of coin I want one of the .45 Lugers from the trials or something really odd like a Bergmann or one of the almost ran early semi autos. I like the borchardts too. I dig the old steampunk clean slate of paper engineering.

Part of me wonders if there would be a market for "art" guns so to speak. Not weapons for the sake of weapons. I mean if you need a gun/weapon/tool go buy a Glock 19 and be happy and confident you have a superior "weapon/tool". But I wonder if there would be a market for some old school "toys" or "kinetic artwork" if you will. I really dug the Remington R51 because of this.......until it was revealed to be a steaming turd of course.


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......and I just distinctly heard some of you mutter "get a rope". Dammit I'm armed and don't judge me. Razz


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I had to drop out of the bidding when my credit card hit its limit of $74,999... Roll Eyes


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Thought it was gonna be a Singer from the title.
 
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"Fit and finish" is horrible (checkout the tooling marks inside the slide), this wouldn't even make a good base for a custom. Pass... Big Grin




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$75k and they charge the buyer $50.00 for shipping? I'd pass! Roll Eyes


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I'll take two. One for each hand.


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Well my take is thank God these are available to anyone with the coin. I dont have it but in a free market YOU might. One thing about fire arms is they ARE history. An
 
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