New gun site - collectables

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by drbuster

Ed, best of luck in this undertaking. How will you value a pistol? From photos we send you? In person? Would like to know for future use.

In person for sure. For us to say that an item is original and not restored; we need to take it apart and look at every part. I have / am developing a checklist that we will use as we evaluate every piece. Right now, these guns are from a local collection and guns that Tom and I own.

However, we want the guns in hand to evaluate and send from our place of business, just as Simpson's or any other company.

If someone has one item, we can evaulate it, or 20 items, but to just give a value, i would expect we'd charge for it, just as all the dealers do.


Ed
pS: this was a good question, would like to paraphrase it on Jan's forum (ok I already di, hope that was ok)