Mike

Jeremy P said
Right after the gavel, it was pulled from the display case and shepherded to the back rooms...until the end of the auction I assume. The winner was not dressed much above shorts and flip flops and stayed to bid on other stuff....I mean, why not?
I've been having trouble posting photos for awhile now for some reason, but here's the display greeting you as you walked in past check-in...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NAePSCQvtNLBsJyX6
  

Hi honey, I’m home. Oh, how did you make out at the auction today? Pretty good, got 3 rifles. Only spent $7 or $8 million.

Shorts and flip flops 😂. 

tionesta1 said

Bill Hanzel said
Says 5,000,000(on-site).  Don’t know if that’s with the juice or not…. Auction is still live on proxibid, I just scrolled up to see
  

Hey Bill,
I'll bring it to the next OGCA show for you to see it.
Al
  

Please do! Hopefully that’s not all you bought?

fred.lasor@gmail.com said
An interesting goal, and a very attractive display.  Thanks for sharing.  The only first year I have is a Model 1892.  I'm a piker.  But I have a Model 1894 action from the first year. 
  

I agree, I've had a few four-digit guns but none were first year.

Mike

mrcvs said
The sales tax alone on this one for me would have been $345,000, assuming a hammer price of $5 million plus 15% buyer’s premium.
Total = $6, 095,000 plus shipping.  I would likely pick it up given the value, however.
If I had that kind of money, it might have brought more as I really would have tried to get it.  If one is worth only a cool $1 billion, it’s only 1/2 of 1% if your net worth.  It’s the equivalent of the average person wanting to get a firearm for $2500 and having to pay $3500 for it (assuming a net worth of $500,000).
  

I believe Rock Island's buyer's premium is 18.5%.  At least that's what they list on their site, and what I have paid in the past.  They are probably very happy to have gotten this listing.  

VR. JOHN

tim tomlinson said
I doubt ANY shipping company we are familiar with insures for anywhere near that value!  Tim
  

Exactly Tim!

The people who buy those rifles and into those higher dollar amounts, self Insure a lot of what they do and how they do it. I'm not saying they don't have or use Insurance, as think about the word itself, "Insurance", as all it means, "is a means of guaranteeing protection or safety"! Weather it's a service paid to a so called insurance company or a hired/contracted set of people/employees or service to pick up and deliver a certain product.

No Shipping company would be used, in most of these higher dollar pieces. IMO!

Great pics Jeremy! Thanks for Sharing!

Tony

Model 70 safeties were interchangeable between different bolt sleeves.  So you could have a pre-war (Version 1) bolt sleeve with a Version 3 ("dogleg") safety OR the whole bolt sleeve/safety could have been replaced.  As Ben said, pictures would allow us to tell you exactly what yoou've got...

Please look at the pictures below...  First is the pre-war bolt sleeve (flat on top) that went with the original "flag" safety.

Next is the later style bolt sleeve (round on top) that was designed for use with the later style (side swing) safeties.

If you have a later style "dogleg" safety on your pre-war file, then it's been replaced.  The question is whether the bolt sleeve was also replaced.  Late M70 safeties will work with all M70 bolt sleeves, and it was common when putting a scope on a pre-war gun to change out either the safety or the bolt/sleeve combination.

Hope this helps,

Lou

I've been having trouble posting photos for awhile now for some reason, but here's the display greeting you as you walked in past check-in...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NAePSCQvtNLBsJyX6

For that kind of  $$$$$$, it doesn't get sent through the more frequent method most of us are antiquated with, as was stated by Mike, the buyers was at the auction. Otherwise a private personal courier, with more than one occupant in the vehicle for obvious reasons, would be used/hired to pick up and transport the firearm, and if needed as TR, suggested a private Jet also! 

Different Strokes!

Tony