Return Of The Townsend Whelen .35

[Chuckindenver]

$60.00 would likely proove him wrong, Freedom of imformation act, and a letter to Redstone would get the sales history of that rifle.
but my take..
if you truly dont want to sell a rifle, why would you advertise it, and when a possible buyer asks for proof of your statements of the said rifle being genuine, the only reason said rifle is valued at such a large ammount, is its history, wouldnt you want to provide that proof??
or is he just feeding his own ego, so to speak..
i run into those same type of collector dealer types all the time.
when they die, the exwife sells said ultra rare collection for pennies on the dollar, as she usually hated those &^% guns anyway.
one said dealer collector had a Remington 760 owned by Sammy davis JR, he had some proof, from the Estate.
and had a price of 6500.00 on the rifle, i was eyeballing the rifle, and the document with my hands behind my back, dealer says, impresssive huh??
well, thats one word that fits for sure.
thats all i said, and looked at the rest of his collection, seemed everything was owned by someone famous, had some sort of story line or other lot of BS that went with it.
a hunting knife owned by Teddy Ros, ect...
i noticed the only thing selling off his display was vintage pictures, and modern made arrow heads being humped off as found.
at 10.00 a head.

Nick ferris asked me a couple years ago, if i would come over and give him a rough value of his collection.
he does have some neet rifles, and a couple nice pistols.
so my responce was.
Nick as much as i care about you and value your friendship, but your guns will be worth a lot more after your gone, if you document, and log your rifles in a book, sign the book, date it and a small story of who you got the rifle from, and what it meens in your collection, or like his Marine rifle, no serialed Reminton 03,s the story he knows via research.
i really think he is clueless to how people view him and some of the books he and Mr Beard have put out.
much like Brophys estate, or anyone who has wrote a book on a collectable rifle.
such as 1903 SA from the Brophy estate..ect. could be a plain jane 800.00 rifle, but since it came from his collection, it would likely fetch more then 1800.00
he later that day, come over to my table and thanked me for my candid responce, and my honesty.
i told him, i trully hope the value of his collection stays low for many years, as i enjoy seeing him, and sharing the BS about guns.
not many guys iv known over the years ask me to loan them a part so they can take pictures of it, with ill bring it back next time i see you.