| HeymSR20 |
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| 18/11/21 04:16 AM |
Re: Market for Doubles on the Decline?
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Speaking from this side of the pond, double rifles are always going to be more difficult to sell. Your Greener is a very nice rifle but:
1) 360 No2 whilst a very good cartridge is not a big dangerous game type cartridge. It’s a antelope, deer, wildboar type cartridge. And I don’t think anyone is now making ammo other than Kynoch. It is nominally 9.3 so you can probably use 9.3 bullets.
If it was or had been rechambered to 9.3 x74r then it would be more usable for wildboar etc as ammo is more readily available
2) for its intended use, most nowadays use an optical sight and most buyers would want it scoped.
3) and Greener are no longer in existence so you don’t have any market drive from an ongoing brand.
You also need to factor that for many, the Pandemic has put paid to many hunting adventures, and thus purchase of rifles.
So what you have is a nice double rifle, but most potential buyers these days would struggle to find a use for it, and being a boxlock, it has minimal collector value. If it was a 9.3x74r, 375 h&h, 400 or 470 nitro, then there would be a market.
So what is your estimation of value/price?
Very difficult to say. In the September Holts Auction there was a mint Daniel Fraser Boxlock in 303 that had a hammer price of £7,000 - Lot 1206, and a Heym Boxlock with a pair of 375 H&H and 7x65R barrels all scoped that made £9,500. But the first is from a top end maker in mint condition with real collector value, and the second is a modern double with two sets of barrels that is selling for probably 50% of new price.
Greener's were never top end, rather good solid working rifles, and the rifle in question is a good solid working rifle with honest use. I would suspect if it was put into the Holts Auction I would guess it's guide price would be £3,000 to £5,000 - or possibly lower to get interest. Given that it is in the US where ownership is that much easier, and hence a wider constituency of buyers you might add another $1,000 to that price.
But it would very much be down to whether or not there were buyers after it on the day. The fact that it has dies and cases with it probably adds quite a bit of value - buy it today and I can play with it at the weekend, as opposed to where do I start lookng for dies. Dies may well be only $100 or less, but could be the difference between getting a good price, or not a lot.
Holts Auctioneers have a free valuation service - https://www.holtsauctioneers.com/v_page.html - upload some pictures and see what they say.