Australian P14 Snipers, or Rifle No 3 Mk I* (T)

[bigduke6]

Promo, that is really the valuable message I deduced from your earlier post. Thank you. I do hope others read into it the same way.

As it stands, for much of that reason (that there was no evidence of provenance) and the silly price, the offer was politely, but firmly declined.

A very wise choice 22Sqn........... at least you asked the questions first and covered all bases and by doing so have saved yourself a lot of hard earned cash. There is nothing worse than seeing folk convincing themselves they have a rare example when everyone else is trying to be as diplomatic as possible and tell them what they do have is not what they think they have......... these are the kind of items that do a few laps of the fairs etc, then are sold in the auction.

I bought a lemon a good few years back, of course never really knew much or anything about it but it was a sale or return........ (very quickly returned) but it showed up again with a very high price tag, although the new owner was convinced he had something special.......... even when I told him where it had come from and what the experts on this forum had quickly described it as, he still thought different......

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[22SqnRAE]

A very wise choice 22Sqn........... at least you asked the questions first and covered all bases and by doing so have saved yourself a lot of hard earned cash. There is nothing worse than seeing folk convincing themselves they have a rare example when everyone else is trying to be as diplomatic as possible and tell them what they do have is not what they think they have......... these are the kind of items that do a few laps of the fairs etc, then are sold in the auction.

Thanks BD6, you're right about the need to ask, test, query. I did some more detailed research, and found the story behind the rifle was probably valid. But as there was no proof offered, the asking price was unsupportable. I'm learning that as a collector, patience and perserverence is equal to detailed knowledge!