I watched this auction and you are right, the high bidder should be very pleased. It is a little sad to see such an iconic custom rifle reduced to nothing more than a commodity, the auction for this rifle was all too brief. There was an original single action pistol that sold for 325K, go figure.
That appears to be RL Wilson's ( noted gun writer ) rifle that was one of a pair. The other being a 300 weatherby that is currently for sale at Holland & Holland, for $48,000 .
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It is a little sad to see such an iconic custom rifle reduced to nothing more than a commodity
Great Art takes time to mellow. Look at Van Gogh. Right before he died he couldn't give his stuff away. look at Ansel Adams. It took 38 years after his death for one of his largest iconic Moonrise photographs to reach a million dollars.
KJK
Posts: 699 | Location: MN | Registered: 11 December 2020
Assume the LOP works for you? That's what kills me on anything not custom. Mine is 15"
"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" -- Ronald Reagan
"Ignorance of The People gives strength to totalitarians."
Want to make just about anything work better? Keep the government as far away from it as possible, then step back and behold the wonderment and goodness.
...and the Colt SAA was a Custer battlefield pick up never out of one family for over 100 years, up for auction the first time. Many times rarer that a Miller rifle.
