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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Physocles" data-source="post: 3984103" data-attributes="member: 52589">When my grandpa died, my grandma very much needed money and sold off most of his collection. She tasked me and one of his best friends to handle the pricing and sale. If I wasn't a 21 year old college kid with cancer and no money, I would have bought all of them.We had a stupid attack and used one of his pricing guides without realizing either that it was from 1987 or how much prices had risen since--I don't know which.Among many other guns, we sold two pre-64 Winchester '94's, and two Marlins (one in .357 Mag and the other in .356). I think the buyer got all four for about a grand and a quarter.... The realization didn't come until I was at a gun show a few years later and saw an identical .222 to one that we let go of for about $500 sell for $1300. I still think about that with a sinking feeling in my gut. I should have taken out a loan and bought the lot...I did manage to save four or five rifles including a fantastic Mannlicher g98/40, I lost all but my grandpa's very first rifle--a Remington mod. 12c to theft when the family friends who were storing the guns for me while I was away for college had a breakin.</blockquote>