Estates are funny business. Often times the family just wants the matter resolved and care very little as to the value of the auctioned items. A friends knows quite a bit about time pieces and he said the big money stuff in this auction was the watches and clocks, not the guns. This was a very wealthy man and likely he had many other investments. My guess is his heirs will be just fine. Would have been a great auction to attend though.

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