Huge collection Appraised
 

I have to say, that Tom Whiteman and a consultant (Dwight Gruber) appraised a huge collection (and inventory) in Arizona. I wanted to be there, but I am a bit out of town, looking at it now, i should have come home and helped.

As it was, we gained valauble information and had a blast.

http://www.legacy-collectables.com/index.htm

If you click on the link of the appraisel you'll see the collection, well the inventory. Mind you these are just parts of the collection and no, we did not bring anything home, although Tom and I have added items to the website, oops, sorry for the ad.

We are not in the position to say who the collection belonged to, so please don't ask.

Ed

Oh, BTW, EVERYTHING, has been moved from the house and placed into special storage.

Ed, Congratulations! Glad to hear it...I applaud Tom, Dwight and yourself for being chosen for this prestigious job.
Interesting photo's!

Jerry Burney

I am sure a police department can be found that is having a gun buy back for gift certificates.:D

what a retirement plan!!!!! Nice collection. I am guessing there will be a lot of fine lugers going around in the near future. It's a shame we have to say so long to some fine folks to make them available. Hopefully they will end up in good hands.

While it is sad that some fine Luger collectors have passed on, it's good that the pistols themselves will find new homes.

Can you tell us of any particularly interesting Lugers that were appraised??? Anomalies perhaps??? Prototypes, test pistols, curiosities???

(Now, if Dianne Feinstein had her way, these would all be manhole covers)...

Perhaps you can tell us who's huge Arizona collection / inventory it isn't. After all, without any hints how can anybody be expected to figure it out ?? Great work and great for Legacy !!

Legal restraints prevent revealing whose collection this is, but obvious is obvious. As I said on the other Forum, I heard "through the grapevine" what the appraised value is and I was somewhat surprised. I postulate that several of the really valuable items may have sold previously.

Herb, I postulate the same thing, and collection and inventory are two different cats...

As most estates, it is up to the family, and it could sit for years.

Twice today I have been told I was advertising on the web. I guess that I thought the readers would find this interesting.

Will delete this thread, if it is deemed an advertisement.


Ed

Can at least tell us how many Lugers there are in this wonderfull collection:jumper:
Alf.

I suspect that the "appraised" lot that we are viewing is the business "working stock" and does not include the private collection of rare and high-dollar guns.

Yes, that is true, those were appraised seperately... and also by us with input from myself and the others.


Oh, BTW, EVERYTHING, has been moved from the house and placed into special storage.

That was a wise move.

Ed, I for one, publically on this Forum, greatly appreciate your bringing all this to our attention. I look at this as a great "feather" in your cap to be chosen (along with Tom of course) as the apprasier for such a prestigious collection. I noted Ron's post above and that would explain the rather "low" value. If I have to get a value for any items in my collection, I'm calling you!

I wish the "special storage" included the trunk of my car I'll say that !!

I would have deleted this thread if I thought it was out-of-line advertising - but, clearly - it is not.. And I am very sensitive about "advertising" on this forum, as you and others know.

Good for you and Tom!

:cheers:

John

Not fair, Ed. When ya gonna make your website Apple compatible?

FN

Not advertising, but disclosure.....
 

Nearly all appraisals "real and personal property" are subject to USPAP (Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice) as set out by the Appraisal Standards Board of the Appraisal Foundation. In this case, the appraisal of this collection would fall under Standard Rule 7 which covers development of personal property appraisals and Standard Rule 8 which covers personal property appraisal reporting.

Without going into all the details, I believe that the confidentiality provision applies here. Although, no values were discussed, photos of the collection were displayed/disclosed, hopefully with the client's permission.

Here's a link to the Appraisal Foundation

https://netforum.avectra.com/eWeb/Dy...bCode=HomePage

Dave, I think I am a bit offended. :mad:

Yes, an official state licensed company came in and were the "estate appraisers" and we were the consultants of appraising the collection and the inventory.

YES, we received permission to use and show the pictures shown.

I would have preferred a private email to suggesting that we did something unethical! :rolleyes:

Wow, good work ED,
sounds like someone wishes they had been picked

Jim

Congrats Ed, Tom & Dwight... for being chosed to advise on the value of such a large number of Lugers... and I agree completely with John D.

This is not an advertisement, this is a privileged notification to the collector community that many fine Luger pistols will available to add to their collections in the not too distant future.

Thanks to the team of the three of you. Almost looks like the basis for a new book Ed! (at least here's hoping!) :)

Jamese is correct. It's not difficult to figure out where the cries of "advertising" are coming from. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I'm sure several people would like to have been chosen for the job. Legacy was chosen and has every right to be proud of that fact. No doubt other establishnents were in the running and several factors considered before the final decision was made. The folks at Legacy no doubt are ever grateful to all those who may have been influential in that decision.

Ed,
My jaw dropped and drool was prolific when I saw the pictures. Congrats on the assignment!!!
I am new to this and just cannot believe the prices. I remember finding Lugers for $50 each when I was in college and could not afford a down payment on a free meal.
One can only hope when some of these go up for sale they will be listed here
I am still looking for a 9mm in good shape at a reasonable price :)
73
John

John, lots of folks are putting in 'bids" for the inventory, as its being sold as an entire lot.

Whoever gets them will have to sell them somewhere, at shows, on-line etc?


I first started reading about lugers in the 70's as a teen, but my first bought luger was a reblued artillery for $350 in 1983 and then a few yrs later a mismatch for $350 (over paid on that one)

Ed

Off the subject, but I know will be read by folks.

I upgraded to Microsoft Publisher 2010. I know some folks don't like it for web page making, but its what I started with and so, until I have the engergy and time to spend 2 weeks making a new website, could a few users with MAC's, go to www.legacy-collectables.com and tell me if there are any differences in your ability to see other pages? I have been told that Mac users can not navigate through the site, and I have downloaded 2 web page makers and bought another and none of them can import the entire site, so its either not have Mac users see Legacy or I have to rebuild the site completely (its over 70+ pages of information)


Ed

Ed,
I can see your 'Featured Item', and the appraisal blurb. Still can't get to your other pages.

Thanks for trying,

FN

I don't have a MAC, but I use SeaMonkey for my web browsing (Mozilla by another name). The "Enter Here For Our Great Selection" button (if it is a button) does not work; on the "General Information" page there is a button or link on the left side with no graphic - it seems to be "Page1611.htm"...Clicking that box takes you to the "Fine Firearms In Stock" page which is also missing a graphic on the left - a "Page356.htm" box/button...The 12 buttons on the "Fine Firearms" page take a *long* time to load; no idea why...

Hope this is a small help. :)

(When the Mozilla people concentrated on FireFox, a small group continued development of a new Mozilla; SeaMonkey is their project)

Well, I have no idea, I will eventually get away from publisher, as I hoped html was html (I know that "their" version is frigged.

Fred, so, the other things don't show as "links" to click on?

I haven't tried recently, but firefox worked fine last time I tried....


Ed

ok, on this laptop (the "spare" I brought with me), I just downloaded the latest Mozilla / Firefox and it went to a page of legacy that said 20 Sept, i refreshed and it shows todays date of the 27th (my new files I uploaded this AM) and everything shows up, but the center link does not work.

All the links on the left work.

Again, I had to refresh that page because my history and temp files were imported.

But the main page of All guns came up, and then I chose the PPK html

Most everything is working for me.

If I had a couple six packs of wine coolers, I'd make a new site....

Well, I bought publisher hoping it would help, but primarily because it has a more robust book printing capability (saves in higher resolution)


Ed

Hi Ed, using Firefox the navigation buttons in the Left frame don't show up on pages below your entry/home page.

MS uses too many Explorer specific "extensions".

Should you decide to re-construct the site manually, consider "Dreamweaver" which is part of the Adobe web oriented software suite. Your site could be done using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

It's much less labor intensive to implement a site using one of the Web 2.0 tools like the open source WordPress BLOG software. wordpress.org has the downloads. I run this software on a Linux server, and it's very compatible, extensible and reliable. You can also create a temporary Blog on their wordpress.com site if you want to test some ideas out.

Marc

Yes, I have dreamweaver trial downloaded

Ed,

Yeah, the stuff on the left, buttons? don't show up as that at all. I use Safari as do most MACs

FN