They're giving away English guns up there.

Not really, the good ones under $5k went above the high estimate.

26% premium... thumbs down

I thought the auction was down a little bit in terms of English gun quality particularly with respect to double rifles. I Successfully avoided an Impulse purchase by not watching the live bidding. How was the energy in the room?

Bid on the phone, pay by check, the buyers premium is 20%.

Same for bidding online at Morphy's site. I used this interface for the auction and liked it. You see the items auctioned in real time and need only click a button to place a bid. I think it's less nerve-wracking than telephone bidding. JMHO

Curl

26%?? Mama Mia- that's a hefty "Vig"!! RWTF

hits called pushing the envelope...

The Parker GH 410 went for about 13K, all in. If I had known that, I would have bid. Probably just as well that I did not know. It is a buyer's market, but then you have some stuff going way high so you just don't ever know

As time goes by I am getting less and less interested in auctions. Private sales, where the potential buyer and seller can communicate, unfettered by the time constraints, are more and more attractive to me.

SRH

I don't think that gun hit it's reserve, if it did someone got a steal !

Auction update, all guns did not sell. Even though during the auction they may have said or indicated they did they did not. I know this as a friend of mine had some guns that did not meet his requirement to sale. That happened to several lots.
But the pair of H & H Royal Brevis guns did sell at that price shown. So cheap.

True that

I wonder if a Purdey two barrel set, pigeon gun, made reserve at $5100 and some? I think some savvy bidders quit bidding when the bidding slows down, knowing the gun is not going to sell. Why give the auction house a free appraisal? I wonder where we'll see the Purdey and the GH Parker next?

My guess is one of the big dealers at a big price