Holy Cow look at the reserve on this Colt.

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I really struggle with engraving. It just seems ridiculous to me on a lot of guns. That's JMO.

"I know I just bought/made/designed a magnum revolver...... LETS ENGRAVE FLOWERS AND SWIRLY STUFF ON IT!!!!!!" "Yep.... that looks good next to the pony....."

"Harry, should we just do a little bit and see how it looks?"

"NO! Lets cover the thing so it looks like Martha Stewart's gun!"

I wouldn't pay over a grand for that thing, and then I'd turn around and resell it for more.
 
I looked at the pictures he posted with the listing and I am not sure that revolver is actually engraved. In several of the photos it looks like those are perhaps water droplets on the metal. Maybe he left it out in a light rain and forgot to wipe it off before taking the pictures.

I think I would have found a buddy who knows his way around a camera and offered him 1/2 of 1% of the proceeds from a successful sale to do a better presentation for that 'buy now' price. He should have just asked me for advice, but then, what do I know? I do not even own a Colt revolver.

I wonder what his reserve on the auction is. I bid $50 over the opening bid and that was still not high enough!
 
A seller can ask any amount he wants. I doubt he will get what he asks for unless the engraving was done by a noted artist.
 
I sure like the 6" Python I own a lot better, knowing I can shoot mine and not have to worry about cleaning all that other stuff up too. To each his own. :eek:
 
"I know I just bought/made/designed a magnum revolver...... LETS ENGRAVE FLOWERS AND SWIRLY STUFF ON IT!!!!!!" "Yep.... that looks good next to the pony....."
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Would it help to know that the finest, manliest firearms in the world, chambered in the manliest cartridges imaginable, used to take the largest dangerous game in Africa, typically have British "rose & scroll" engraving?

Most American guns, like the Python in question, are not going to have any floral patterns. Most are going to be what is known as American scroll. While fewer are oak leaf or cattle brand engraving. I don't care for either of the latter.
 
CraigC said:
Would it help to know that the finest, manliest firearms in the world, chambered in the manliest cartridges imaginable, used to take the largest dangerous game in Africa, typically have British "rose & scroll" engraving?
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That's a negative Craig. I don't think floral engraving makes a gun seem unmanly though, the entire imagined exchange just sounded funny to me. I know it's traditional, and on a limited basis, I do like it on some guns. I like it on some holsters too. It's all personal preference. I wouldn't buy a pink corvette, but I'm sure it's still fast.

Most American guns, like the Python in question, are not going to have any floral patterns. Most are going to be what is known as American scroll. While fewer are oak leaf or cattle brand engraving. I don't care for either of the latter.
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Yes, that's what I said. Swirly stuff. ;) Now some oak leaves I could get into. But I am a professional forester, so.... there you go.
 
Actually, I like good engraving on a firearm; but IMHO (and from what I can tell from the bad pictures), that is not very good engraving. An engraver is, first and foremost, an artist. Everyone can scratch metal, just like everyone can daub paint on a canvas. Not everyone is a Kornbrath or a DaVinci.

Jim
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
Origionally he had it up for $8,900 starting bid and $9,800 buy it now. After many months with no bites, he started relisting it at a different price: $9,300 starting bid and $11,000 buy it now.
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I've heard that high-end jewelry dealers will raise their prices when something doesn't sell. And colleges often resort to giant tuition hikes to convince potential students that their college is better than others.

Today George Washington, like many “up-and-coming” second-tier schools—American University, New York University—is ruinously expensive. After decades of offering a low-cost education, GW took a sharp turn upmarket in the late 1980s under the presidency of Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. The university went on a high-class building spree, financed by a dizzying series of tuition increases. When Trachtenberg took office, undergraduate tuition was $14,000—below average for a private, four-year college. By the time he left in 2007, it had mushroomed to $39,000 a year (or, including fees and room and board, a whopping $50,000)—making GW the most expensive school in the United States.

What Trachtenberg understood was that perception is reality in higher education—and perception can be bought. “You can get a Timex or a Casio for $65 or you can get a Rolex or a Patek Philippe for $10,000. It’s the same thing,” Trachtenberg says. The former president gambled that students who couldn’t quite get into the nation’s most exclusive colleges—and who would otherwise overlook a workmanlike school like the old GW—would flock to a university that at least had a price tag and a swank campus like those of the Ivy Leagues. “It serves as a trophy, a symbol,” he says. “It’s a sort of token of who they think they are.”

What’s amazing is that this strategy worked. During Trachtenberg’s tenure, applications for undergraduate admission increased from 6,000 to 20,000 a year, GW students’ average SAT scores increased by 200 points, the endowment increased to almost $1 billion—still quite low for GW’s size, but higher than the $200 million nest egg Trachtenberg inherited—and the university created five new schools."
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/the_prestige_racket.php?page=all

If I had $8000 to spend a handgun, I would rather pay someone like Hamilton Bowen to create something extravagant for me. :D
 
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When it comes to guns and dogs.......
Show me how it "talks" or "barks"
Looks is lower on the list of gotta have

I have no show guns/dogs


Now women ARE a whole different story
tgrn:D
 
I have no show guns/dogs
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Yeah but a show dog is good for little else, an engraved gun will do anything a plain one will. I carried my engraved Cimarron Open Top all last season, using it to dispatch several varmints and plan on taking a buffalo with my engraved Ruger .500 after I get it back. ;)
 
Maybe it's the pictures, but I think that engraving actually takes away from the gun, not adds to it. I think the basic bluing on a Python is a beauty to behold on its own.
 
Back in 1996 I attended a gun auction that had two 6" factory engraved Pythons, one blued & one stainless. They were new in wood presentation box with certificates from Colt's. I had $500 in my pocket. One sold for $700 and the other sold for $800.

The crowd was starting everything low and making the auctioneer work. After watching the first one sell I knew I would not be able to buy the second one either. I wanted to say I bid on it, so when the auctioneer started out asking for a $200 bid I immediately threw my bidder number up and yelled FIVE HUNDRED!! All the old guys up front who had been starting everything at $100 turned around and stared at me. I just smiled back at them. Those were beautiful revolvers and they sold cheap that day, but I simply did not have the funds to bid any higher. I have acquired four Pythons since then and they have appreciated in value, but those two engraved beauty's will always be the ones that got away.
 
I was scared I was going to break it.
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Watch Jerry lock one up as he attempts to fire it fast at 3:15 into the video:

He also has some interesting remarks about the gun over the course of the video or maybe near the end. About getting one worked on and getting it tuned compared to working on a S&W back then.

 
Might be one of those "Yes, honey, I'll put it up for sell but only for what it's worth" type of ordeals (never know).
 
CraigC said:
Yeah but a show dog is good for little else, an engraved gun will do anything a plain one will.
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A show dog is good for much more than an untrained dog. An engraved gun is nothing but a gun, no more, no less, just cosmetically different. A show dog will do things an untrained dog will not. The analogy does not fit reality.

We show our dogs, not just conformation, but weight pull and bite sleeve competitions. Depending on the Kennel Club, and the breed, its not all hoity toity old ladies with their pinkies extended and their powder puff yappy dog-like-things.

I have show dogs, but I don't have engraved guns. My show dogs are trained to be almost as effective as a gun, though.

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Bite force measured at 315 PSI, which converts to 45,360 pound-force/square foot. Ouch.
 
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