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Offline Bill of the 45th

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Nice Bedford on Gunbroker
« on: December 27, 2010, 11:55:29 PM »
Interesting piece on Gunbroker
www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=207753376

Bet Suzkat will like it.

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Offline Majorjoel

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Re: Nice Bedford on Gunbroker
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2010, 02:09:18 AM »
This rifle has been on there for a while. I just noticed the initials JH on the thumb inlay.....hmmmm, very interesting :o
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Offline whitebear

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Re: Nice Bedford on Gunbroker
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2010, 02:14:03 AM »
Very nice rifle but way too rich for my blood!
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Offline debnal

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Re: Nice Bedford on Gunbroker
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2010, 03:38:07 AM »
That rifle has been on for months. As I recall, when he first posted it he stated that it was a modern made rifle.
Al

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Re: Nice Bedford on Gunbroker
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2010, 04:12:07 AM »
Bill,  I don't see anything about that rifle that says Shreckengost to me....
care to expand on why you think I might like it?
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Offline Dphariss

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Re: Nice Bedford on Gunbroker
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2010, 04:23:53 AM »
That rifle has been on for months. As I recall, when he first posted it he stated that it was a modern made rifle.
Al

The description hints at this and IMO it is.
Buy may have gotten burned and is trying to get his money back.

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Offline Hurricane ( of Virginia)

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Re: Nice Bedford on Gunbroker
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2010, 05:02:32 AM »
I have just spoken to the owner and indeed he acknowledges that it is an early contemporary in the "style" of Stoudenour. No effort on his part to misrepresent it as an original.

Offline Fullstock longrifle

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Re: Nice Bedford on Gunbroker
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2010, 05:06:47 AM »
Initially he was asking in the neighborhood of $18,000 for it and suggested that Carl Pippert made it.  I never believed that Carl made it, this wasn't his style of rifle.  He's dropped the attribution from his description, but your right, he hints that it's some sort of contemporary rifle.

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Re: Nice Bedford on Gunbroker
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2010, 06:26:07 AM »
Wow! From those pictures I could have got snookered by that one! :o
Or maybe it's due to the resemblance to the other Bedford that recently popped up. Either way it looks like a reasonably good job of fakery!
Rifle in hand would no doubt tell a different story.

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