New record?

[obssd1958]

The price that this mould brought is outside my ability to understand...

http://cgi.ebay.com/SHARPS-44-77-44-60-RARE-Antique-Vintage-bullet-mold_W0QQitemZ170196046919QQihZ007QQcategoryZ71118 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Don

[MT Gianni]

It's not the mold it's the ME attitude throwing the green around. Gianni

[Dale53]

I cannot say that I understand the "Collector Mentality". I am not knocking it, but I do NOT understand it.

However, I LOVE good photographs and original paintings by the masters (and I have seen some of the finest known to man) but I cannot understand millions and millions of dollars to own them. I guess I just think like a piker...

Dale53

[45nut]

started at 99 cents...wow.

[MakeMineA10mm]

Nice. No sprue cutter to contend with. Cast it, drop the bullet, and after it's cooled a bit, use the nippers on the end to nip off the sprue.... Wonder what that does for accuracy??? (The sample boolit looks a little muddled up at the nose where the nippers bit...)

[floodgate]

I know Sharps collectors can be real fanatics, but....

But then, I spent more on a takedown tool for my 1910 or so Standard Arms pump in .25 Rem. than I did on the rifle, so who am I to talk? (It was only in the low three figures, though.) I DID, however, pass on an M1905 Springfield bayonet and scabbard in nice condition, dated 1919, at $475 at the Ukiah show today, since it didn't quite match my 1918 dated '03 (which cost me about half that ten years ago).

Fg

[shooter93]

I saw that too. Was it marked Sharps on the mold anywhere?, my pics for some reason weren't very clear. I'm certainly no expert but every Sharps mold I've seen was marked as such somewhere on the mold so I'm curious is all.

[HORNET]

The seller said that he didn't see any Sharps markings but also said that he didn't wamt to clean it up to see better as that might diminish the value.
On the plus side, he only wanted $11 shipping and handling..........

[onceabull]

Not quite in the same category,in fact,probably not even a collectible.But there is a 2c Lyman 358627 presently @ $114.50 on e-Bay with a while to go before the hammer drops. Even more intriguing is that the gent in 2nd place now @$112.00 is a known commercial...!! egad:roll: Onceabull

[Scrounger]

I told you collectors were crazy....

[Jon K]

It all depends on how badly you want it. Doesn't matter what it was or is. Admit it..........we've all been there, at least once.

OK, now here comes all the no, not me, and I'd never do that, but I figure it's no different than the gun you don't need, or already have that's on lay away, or got bought on plastic.........still paying interest.

So...........how bad did he want it?.............Bad enough, and he's got the money to throw at it. In a case as such...... I want to be the seller.


Jon

[10-x]

Buddy of mine has a scrounger friend that turns up all kinds of stuff.......the other day he tells me his scrounger buddy has some boolit moulds.................well today I get by and check them out..........the scrounger is also there...........I check them out and most are older 2 C. Lymans with handles........the scrounger proceededs to tell me they are worth $80.00 each and he will sell them for 1/2 price.........some were new others were used, nothing out of the ordinary, .357,452,454, 401 and 311 rifle...............I walked away.
The scrounger forgets 2 months ago I took my bayonet reference book down there and Id'ed 15 old bayonets for him so he could sell them............
screw me once shame on you..screw me twice, shame on me.........

[Phil]

I wanted a 323471 mold for a long time. Sold my original in the sixties and regretted it since the day I sold it. Found a new one on e-pay a year or so ago and since it was the only one I've seen for sale since I started looking, I got it. Paid almost a $100 for it but I wanted it. Believe it or not, the same day there was a 323471 HP also for sale. Don't know what it went for. I wanted the standard model, my buddy and I split the cost on it, its about the best 8mm bullet going in my opinion. No regrets. Thats the only time I've paid that kind of money for a Lyman mold though. My original Hoch molds are a different story and a different league.

Cheers,

Phil