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Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to inspect each lot yourself or have your agent do so on your behalf. Otherwise SC state sales tax may avoided by having items shipped or by ICC courier.Ĭondition Reports: Charlton Hall Galleries, Inc., and its employees are pleased to provide you with the condition of lots offered for auction. Local 7% Sales Tax applies to all items pick up in person for clients without Resale License. Your bid does not include South Carolina sales tax. We requests that your shippers schedule pick up times at least 24 hours in advance, this will insure no delays in pick up, and release of your purchases.Ī premium of 15% of the successful bid price will be added thereto and is payable by the purchaser as part of the total purchase price of each lot. Your items will be released as soon as payment cleans our bank. Please contact the shipper of your choice to arrange for packing and pick up your items.
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ITEMS WILL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL FULL PAYMENT HAS CLEARED OUR ACCOUNT!ĬHARLTON HALL DOES NOT SHIP: Charlton Hall will be pleased to provide a list of shippers and packers that will our worldwide base of clients has successfully used, or you can have your own shipper handle your purchases. If any part of these Conditions of Sale is for any reason invalid or unenforceable, the rest shall remain valid and enforceable.ĪLL PAYMENTS ARE DUE AT THE CLOSE OF SALE. No waiver, amendment, nor modification of the terms hereof (other than posted notices or oral announcements during the sale) shall bind us unless specifically stated in writing and signed by us. A hard-rubber Silver's pad has been leather-covered to finish the butt.These Conditions of Sale shall bind the successors and assigns of all bidders and purchasers and inure to the benefit of our successors and assigns. It has some way to go before it gets a finished sheen but the beauty of the wood is now apparent. Here we can see the stock as it arrived and after the chequer has been refreshed, teh drop-points gently sharpened and the dents and scratches removed After applying Red Oil, we have begun to apply coats of finishing oil. Look for gaps between wood and metal and between metal joints. This is easier to achieve if the gun, at the start, is not too worn. Woodwork, action, furniture and barrels should look like they belong together, in harmony. The light here makes teh hammers look dark but that is aged case-hardening, not new blacking. Hammers were case colour hardened and should never be blacked. Mechanical integrity is of key importance, with this gun, we had to re-joint barrels to action, make and fit a new mainspring for the right lock and fully stip, clean and polish all internal parts, before re-assembly. We try to mimic the original finish if we can, which often means subtler, lighter effects than commonly applied. It is often very good but sometimes too obvious. The result we seek is an old gun in great condition - not an obviously restored and over-polished statement.No one part should stand out, there should be harmony.īarrel browning is an art, all sorts of colours can be replicated, if you have the skills and experience. Here the under side of the bar is now clean, having had the dirt boiled out of it, the trigger plate pin has been blued but nothing else. Polishing actions and re-case colour hardenig, in our view, ruins a gun more often that it improves one. The effect is not dramatic, or obvious but subtle and practical. The top photos shows it as it arrived,the second after cleaning (not polishing). The gun had been stored for decades and had a broken mainspring and detatched ribs, as well as quite significant pits and dents in the barrels.
Here are some 'before' and 'after' photographs of a 16-bore Stephen Grant, which we restored quite recently. Restorers should accept and embrace some of the history of the gun and work with it, rather than trying to make a used gun loook new, which it never will. Over-restoration is a curse and we see hundreds of guns we with had been treated more carefully. When an old gun is discovered and accepted as a candidate for restoration, we try to bring it back to as close to full mechanical and practical perfection as possible, without destroying its integrity.