Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2019 19:01:41 GMT
Gavin Gardiner at Gleneagles
26 August was Gavin Gardiner’s summer sale in Scotland and he catalogued 165 lots to offer for sale.
Two almost unused over & under 12-bores caught my eye; one by ex-Purdey duo Symes & Wright and another by Purdey, made in 1991. Both were expected to make less than a third of the cost of a new Purdey.
My pick of the sale was a Holland & Holland ‘Royal Brevis’ that looked mint. The ‘Royal Brevis’ was a short barrelled gun in concept, built to challenge Churchill’s ‘XXV’, which was selling every well in the 1930s.
The ‘Brevis’ (short) usually had 26 1/2” barrels but, for some reason, a few were made with 28” barrels, like this one. It was in as good a condition as you will find a gun of this period and I noticed Gavin was giving it a good deal of praise via his social media campaign, which features him showing and talking about some of the guns he is about to sell.
Despite recent media attacks, the industry received some well-deserved recognition
It has been interesting to watch the auctioneers embrace technology and increasingly use filmed excerpts describing guns from the catalogue. We have come along way since printed paper catalogues, often without illustration, simply listing guns for sale with a line or two of basic information.
In those days it was a given that a buyer would be at the viewing to look at the gun and at the auction to bid for it. Online sales are now common and buyers seem willing to take a punt from afar.
IF THIS IS YOUR FAVOURIT FORUM TOO! Post your opinion below PLS. Your gun friends in here like to know!
Among them were some really interesting patent guns for the collector, including a Scott & Baker patent by Cogswell & Harrison, a Bentley patent ‘semi-hammerless’ gun, a Gibbs .256 bolt-rifle and a pair of ‘Twelve Twenty’ lightweight Lancaster side-locks.
Two almost unused over & under 12-bores caught my eye; one by ex-Purdey duo Symes & Wright and another by Purdey, made in 1991. Both were expected to make less than a third of the cost of a new Purdey.
My pick of the sale was a Holland & Holland ‘Royal Brevis’ that looked mint. The ‘Royal Brevis’ was a short barrelled gun in concept, built to challenge Churchill’s ‘XXV’, which was selling every well in the 1930s.
The ‘Brevis’ (short) usually had 26 1/2” barrels but, for some reason, a few were made with 28” barrels, like this one. It was in as good a condition as you will find a gun of this period and I noticed Gavin was giving it a good deal of praise via his social media campaign, which features him showing and talking about some of the guns he is about to sell.
Despite recent media attacks, the industry received some well-deserved recognition
It has been interesting to watch the auctioneers embrace technology and increasingly use filmed excerpts describing guns from the catalogue. We have come along way since printed paper catalogues, often without illustration, simply listing guns for sale with a line or two of basic information.
In those days it was a given that a buyer would be at the viewing to look at the gun and at the auction to bid for it. Online sales are now common and buyers seem willing to take a punt from afar.
IF THIS IS YOUR FAVOURIT FORUM TOO! Post your opinion below PLS. Your gun friends in here like to know!
