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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: TAB on February 24, 2011, 05:24:01 PM
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http://gardenandgun.com/newsletter/sale-hemingways-elephant-gun
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Bet it goes for over $300,000.
I recently saw a Time magazine article about the upsurge in popularity of "Fine Arms" for investment purposes.
Classic Double rifles from Name brand makers such as Westly Richards or Holland and Holland routinely bring in 50 - 100% over estimated value.
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For such a manly man, who loved big fish, big game, big guns,....it's a shame he used such a small pistol to take his own life.
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He used a shot gun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#Idaho_and_suicide
He was released in late June and arrived home in Ketchum on June 30. Two days later, in the early morning hours of July 2, 1961, Hemingway "quite deliberately" shot himself with his favorite shotgun.[146] He unlocked the gun cabinet, went to the front entrance of their Ketchum home, and "pushed two shells into the twelve-gauge Boss shotgun, put the end of the barrel into his mouth, pulled the trigger and blew out his brains."[147] Mary called the Sun Valley Hospital, and Dr. Scott Earle arrived at the house within "fifteen minutes". Despite his finding that Hemingway "had died of a self-inflicted wound to the head", the story told to the press was that the death had been "accidental".[148]
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More of the mystique. I read it was a Colt Mustang. But I stand corrected, and it seems more fitting and ligit being Hemingway...The Cubans still love the man.
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More of the mystique. I read it was a Colt Mustang. But I stand corrected, and it seems more fitting and ligit being Hemingway...The Cubans still love the man.
Much like the Spaniards, French and Italians, if you leave out their politics, they have very good tastes. He was an extraordinary man who gave me hours of pleasure through his writings. If I had the money to own one of his guns I would jump on it.
FQ13