Rare Mauser 714

[alvin]

Originally Posted by conehammer

You've assembled quite a collection by now Alvin, didn't you also add a 6 and 20 shot to your stable? Were you the guy that snagged that beautiful Turkish Contract piece a year or so ago?

Got Joe's 20CH. He had a few 20CHs, but only this one being original. I bet he had another nicer original one, probably sold privately to his friend. 6CH came from a California collector. He violated law and court forced him selling all guns. So I got his 6CH, a very nice original one.

I was not the guy on the Sturgess Turkish though. I handled the gun in the preview, it looks nice. Book value of Turkish in that shape was about $10k, I knew it would not come at $10k, if stretching to $12k, plus BP and tax (I had to pay tax), I would have to pay $15k. That's hard. So my max was $12k and stopped there. But other people pushed it to $27.5k, plus BP that would be more than $30k. Not because I did not like it, but I really could not compete. And, at this price level,,, it does not have matching stock.

Actually, for Turkish CH, it does not have to look that nice. A 40% or higher one will be OK with me. Turkey was a poor country, guns falling into Turkish hands going lower condition was normal. But I have not met one yet. Joe had a poor one sold later on gunbroker.com via 3rd party, but that one had mixed parts, and grip frame was damaged, so I bypassed it. 1000 Turkish were made, its rarity is like 6-shot, Persian, and carbine. Probably fewer survived, but there must be more. Just need to wait an appropriate one.