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Tom, You should try to go see Michaels collection one more time before it is spread across all four corners off the earth.Truly amazing to see so many custom 03s in one room..... If you do, dont pass by a Harvey Rogers!!!!One of my favorites!
As for Michael I would say something Neidner/Shelhamer or a shotgun from Schaefer of Boston. Dan.

Tom,

Here is the list of what Michael intended to keep when he knew he had to start selling his collection. Somewhere among them would be his ultimate one "keeper"!

I suspect Dan has it right, either a Neidner/Shelhamer rifle or a Schaefer gun.

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=381779&page=3

There is a similar situation with Lot 257, "Custom 1903 Springfield Magazine Sporting Rifle By Alois Koshollek". This rifle started out as a stock Michael aquired and at first thought it might be made by Emil Koshollek.

It was discussed HERE

I don't know if Amoskeg meant for it to sound like Emil worked on the rifle being auctioned off, but when I read the description it sure sounds that way to me. I know Michael was concerned that rifles he put together would be mistaken for originals and it looks like he had valid concerns.

At any rate I will be curious to see what it sells for. I'd love to have it but I dislike bidding over the phone on live auctions.

Thank for posting that Terry - very interesting. I'm embarrassed to so say that I missed that post, deer season has taken over my interest and most of my spare time.

Does anyone know if Michael specified that his guns sell in one auction? Seems to me prices would be better for his estate if they were spread out over several auctions.

-Tom

"Does anyone know if Michael specified that his guns sell in one auction? Seems to me prices would be better for his estate if they were spread out over several auctions."

I have often wondered about that myself, some collections-like the Stretch Kennedy one,must be spread out over several but with the Petrov one and others that size-and focused,there may be a case that bringing all the buyers to one auction might well create higher bids-you don't get lot 25 so you bid higher on lot 50 for instance.
Amoskeag has done a great job on the larger catalog and I think the 2 day-his first will work out well.
I have seen them have "feeding frenzy" buyers when a large collection of Savage 99's or others again focused ones have gone in one auction.Lets hope it does so for this one.

Not sure how we could prove it one way or the other but it is a good question.
Good luck with the deer hunting Tom,wind blew me out of the woods this morning,will rest up for the 2 days in my "auction stand" now and back at it next week.

"Does anyone know if Michael specified that his guns sell in one auction?"

I think the fact that Michael had produced a list of "keepers" implies he planned to sell about 2/3 of his collection and hold back the "keepers" to a later date. His untimely death,of course,changed that.

I, too, hope having the whole collection at once is not "too much of a good thing", but a few more days will tell us the answer to that. I suppose we can judge by the percentage of the rifles that sell below,with-in or above estimate as a determiner of whether there were too many at once.

What happened to the Hoffman falling block .22 LR target rifle? I did not see it listed.

Michael sold that rifle a few years ago.

John

A post-war pre-model S&W 357 Mag went for some $26,000+ at Amoskeag, estimate 4-6,000. Rumor has it MPs stuff is not setting records??

I hope some of the members here, picked up a few of these rifles today. I was surprised that many did not pull the prices that I thought they would and seemed to be really good deals. But then I was interested in some of the custom guns by Niedner that I thought would bring more money. Doc Baker's (my favorite) double set trigger Borchardt with the cocking knob only brought $3250. Many of the custom 03's didn't bring near as much either.. You can go to the Proxibid website and see the posted prices.