Got my email with the annual Black Friday Gun Auction over at Sunrise Antiques in Chesterfield. I’ve picked up a few items over the years from some of their auctions. If anyone is interested I’ve posted the link below.
Black Friday Auction
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Don’t really need anything but if the price is right, I may bite. I’ve bought a couple things from their auctions before. Pondering taking the trip down..
I you’re thinking about bidding on a larger ticket item, you MUST, repeat MUST go and inspect it before bidding.
I watched a frankenstein Parker shotgun go for full matching parts price (a thousand more than it should have) to an online bidder who only went by the photos. I can’t imagine he was very happy.
I would have bid on a flintlock with a badly pitted barrel if I had only seen it online, fortunately I was there for the preview and dropped a bore light down.
That being said it’s the best gun auction I know of within driving distance
Also, very often those boxes of primers and stuff are less than half full, again, without previewing, you’d never know.
Totally agree with you on putting on eyes and hands on these things before you throw down money on this. Sometimes the pictures look nothing like what they are in person. I’ve walked out there empty handed more times than I’ve won. Even the auctioneer seems surprised people just go entirely by the online pictures, especially the new people.
Thank you for this information. They have some very interesting items for auction.
Pre-Bidding Now Open – View the June 20th Auction Catalog Now.
Link?
Post right above yours.
Scroll down and you’ll get to the individual items, with at least 5 pages worth.
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So went over there today. Hung out with @Sudsy for a while and managed to snag a few items. I also learned something interesting today: A good portion of the guns sold today were from the leftover inventory of Tactical Training Center in Flemington. Figured some of you may have wanted to know, since a few of you wondered aloud what happened to their stuff.
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Looks like there were some really good deals.
I’m sad I forgot about this… def would of picked up that Yugo M48
It’d be great if @sunriseantiques became a supporting vendor and started posting auctions again, so we know when they are. I know I can just go to their site, but out of sight, out of mind.
Yeah the guy that got it was there at the last one. Even he was surprised he got it.
Yeah i was very surprised at some of them. You also have to factor in the buyers premium and the sales tax. After that then it starts look less of one. The Black Friday one is usually the one where things get overpriced.
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If i remember it I’ll try and bring it up durong .y pick up day. That’s the big bad thing about the place, he only does transfers at certain times.