Christie’s $5.8 Million Singing-Bird Pistols Lift Watch Sale
A pair of singing-bird pistols made of gold and inlaid with gems sold for HK$45.5 million ($5.8 million) at a Christie’s International sale in Hong Kong yesterday.This eclipses the ~ $1 million paid for an original 1836 Colt revolver a few weeks back. Now, obviously, these are very rare and exotic pistols; the price reflects both the extremely good condition of the pistols as well as the rarity of the pair. Still, $5.8 million dollars? Damn, that's enough to set you up in some serious Class III goodness - including ammo!
A huge round of applause erupted after a 10-minute fight that Christie’s head of watches Aurel Bacs described as “an epic bidding war between two of the world’s most connoisseur collectors.” The only publicly known matching pair in the world were included in a 456-lot sale of timepieces that raised HK$164.7 million ($21.2 million), the highest tally for an Asian watch sale, the London-based auction house said. Two Patek Philippe watches sold for more than $1 million each.
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$5.8 million dollars. I wonder if I've got anything in the armory to match that?
That is all.
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Too bad they're not real pistols.
Now THAT would be cool.
Yeah, I thought about putting pistols in quotes, but I was too damn lazy...
So you're willing to buy my Original Dan Wesson for $75,000? I'd be careful about High Priced Auction Items. The Worse the Economy, the more People Panic, and drive up the Price of Something, especially Art. Then they try to get a Profit when the Economy Turns, and there's No Takers.
Think of all those guys sitting on Primers that they bought after the last Presidential Election, for example.
That video that's displaying for me isnt the right one. Try this: http://www.christies.com/singing-bird-pistols-en-1422-3.aspx
And Les, about those primers. I know back then when ammo first started getting scarce, I laughed because I was a reloader. That ammo shortage didn't bother me! Well, when the primers and powder got scarce too, I wasn't laughing. I *wish* I was one of those guys sitting on 100,000 primers, because like just about everything else, once they became available again the price had gone up 50-100%, and it really hasn't come back down. Considering properly stored they'll last for decades, stockpiling isnt such a bad thing. You can have all the cool guns in the world when the zombies attack, but if you don't have ammo they're just a fancy sticks.
Class III? You could get a tank for that.
So, this was the 1820's version of a gun that pops out a "BANG!" flag on a stick?
This post is useless without pics. So here you go: http://luxedb.com/exceptionally-rare-pair-of-singing-bird-pistols-fetches-5-8m/
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