Confusion!! DP NZ marked Savage No 4

[Anzac15]

I'm beginning to think I'm auctioning off the wrong things..

[muffett.2008]

Purchase this fine vintage piece, a 1940's warhorse, DP marked. This "Desirable Piece" will fill that niche in your collection.

[conec]

This "Desirable Piece"

I was thinking more along the line of "Double Price"...

[jmoore]

I'm beginning to think I'm auctioning off the wrong things..

It's like old convertible autos. Install a cheap new carpet and top after having giving the mass of body filler a shiny new coat of paint and you can sell a shot-out old rust-bucket for far more than any rational utility value. I remember one that was so bad the doors wouldn't open ... unless there was nobody sitting in the "cockpit"! A fact discovered after the new owner had paid for his toy .

So...Tart up your old beaters (that have some desirable feature like "matching numbers") and make a fortune. Just don't expect repeat customers.

[Maple_Leaf_Eh]

I'm sort of concerned for the wider world now that a fellow has overpaid for a DP rifle. After cleaning and rummaging up some ammo, I think he's headed to the range. No one knows why it was marked DP or if it is safe to fire. Gulp!

[boltaction]

I just can't believe that! You can see the pitting on the rearsight and other areas, which has been just painted over, and the paint or whatever it is was clearly applied after the import as the import marks are covered up--not even like one can say it was "painted for parade ground use by the Royal Foot Guard of New Zealand" or something like that. There is a gawd-awful coating of some sort of shiny s*** on the stock, and the stock seems to have been sanded. I guess from a distance it's a pretty enough looking rifle, but $600!

Still, when one looks at the so-called "Russian capture" black painted electropencil forcematched shellacked German K98ks, which are now priced at about $600, or the CRAZY prices people are paying for mixmaster Franken-Garands, maybe it's all of a piece. Makes me feel better about the value of the contents of my gun safe. Of course, when I sold my mismatched 1913 dated Enfield SMLE a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't find someone who wanted to pay more than $375............. maybe it's a location thing? Or the lure of a US made Lee-Enfield?

Ed

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

It seems that the wide audience provided by the internet drives prices much higher than they go locally. My most recent anecdotal evidence of this is a Mk 7 bayonet purchased for $75 locally when they are normally north of $200 on e-bay.

[Peter Laidler]

I haven't got a clue to what a DP rifle is worth, even if it's a NZ marked one but I'm a firm believer that there is a place in ANY Enfield collection for a DP rifle. It is what it is/are what they are, a 'real' training aid. Although I'd prefer to see an L59 in a collection.

Now there's a thought......... Maybe someone ought to put an L59 on the auction, see what it fetches then reproduce some more (simplicity itself.......) converted/culled from old worthless ex sporters. If I was living in the US noiw and had access to some of this old sporterised tat, this is what I'd be doing

[muffett.2008]

Strewth Peter, stop putting ideas into their heads.

[Bindi2]

Strewth Peter, stop putting ideas into their heads.

You are only dirty with P the P because he thought of it before you. Not enough No4s here to do the job any way.