Originally Posted By: PALUNC
So to answer why do I just sell to one of the dealers? You know very well they do not pay the price an individual will pay.


Precisely, and that means you've got to step into the dealer's role.

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So let me ask again, is Hussey that low on the pole that 11K is to much to ask for?


No, but it depends on the gun. Dave K posted the link to this one....

http://gunroom.shootingsportsman.com/listing/1919

...and some thought the price too high at $13,500. I dunno, but I don't think I agree. I chew the fat with the previous owner/Managing Director of Atkin Grant & Lang, who is still active in the trade, fairly often. For a high, original condition Hussey Imperial, he gets more than that. The gun SKB mentioned in his post above doesn't sound out of line to me either.

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Is the replacement barrels bringing it down?


That question is a bit premature, since we don't know for sure yet if the barrels are a replacement or not. However, as I said before, the answer is yes.

Take another look at this H. J. Hussey that OWD posted a link to earlier in this string:

http://mylandco.com/index.php?pageid=99&listingid=730

Attractive gun with two sets of barrels. New set of barrels proved in London, date coded 1980, with maker's name and 61 Pall Mall, St. James's address. Grant & Lang (which became Atkin Grant & Lang in 1960) succeeded to the remnants of the Hussey business in 1930. AGL was at 61 Pall Mall 1976-1980. So, new barrels by the maker in 1980. Also has original barrels, now sleeved, re-proved London, also date coded 1980, so the original barrels were probably sleeved by the maker at the same time the new barrels were made. Asking $6,950. I don't claim to know, but OWD posted that it's been for sale for quite a while. Strikes me as a fair price. If an otherwise nice vintage British gun doesn't have original barrels in sound condition, new barrels by the maker are the best you can hope for.

IF yours turns out to have replacement barrels, since we know that it has Brum marks on the flats, they obviously can't be by the maker, meaning it would likely be worth even less.

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What you rather have, original barrels at 25 thousands or new replacement barrels at 28 or 29?


The market says original barrels, hands down.

"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."