The descriptions of the first two guns in the catalog were enough to tell me that I was not going to be able to tell from the catalog descriptions which guns I would be remotely interested in. There are lots of words used to tell us what we can tell from the pictures and little about what the pictures don't tell us. A good percentage of the description is a synopsis of the history of the company that made the gun, something bidders already know. The pictures don't add much either. Diggory, if you and George sell a few guns and snap up a few dozen more consignment guns that don't make reserve, the sale will be a success, for two of you, and maybe the auction house. However, that leaves out a bunch of the rest of us. Kind of like the automobile bailout. I'm hardly ever this negative but among name gun auctions, this is not one of my favorites. I would love to be able to attend the inspection, but the catalog doesn't give me enough information to bother to get in the car.
