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Rock Island Auction Company Presents an April Premiere Firearms Auction
April 30 & May 1 & 2 with Over 2700 Lots..

Rock Island Auction April Premiere Firearms Auction

Rock Island Auction Company

Moline, IL --(AmmoLand.com)- Rock Island Auction Company announces the next Premiere Firearms Auction to be held at their facilities in Moline, IL. The huge success of our previous sales proves that people are investing in what they know: firearms are solid investments that hold value through economic downturns.

Investing and collecting opportunities abound at Rock Island’s fantastic Premiere Firearms Auction April 30 & May 1 & 2.  At a time when the stock market changes daily, gun collectors are seeing the worth of their investments.

Hard assets are the place to invest your money and gun values continue to rise. This auction has firearms for every level of collecting and investing from Colts to Winchesters and the hundreds of high quality sporting arms. Rock Island’s continued sell through rate of over 97% proves that items that come to RIAC are for sale and now is your chance to make a solid investment.

Featuring the C.W. Slagle Firearms Estate Collection and to include Derringers, Palm Pistols, Powder Flasks and other Curio Type Firearms.

• Over 600 Derringers and Curio Type Weapons
• Over 400 Winchesters, outstanding lever actions from 1866 – 1895 plus excellent Model 21’s & sporting rifles including Model 70’s
• Over 650 Colts, excellent Colt percussions, outstanding single actions and magnificent engraved 1878/77’s double action revolvers
• Over 600 Military Arms from U.S., Europe and Japan
• Over 500 Sporting Arms including fine shotguns, rifles and pistols
• Outstanding Civil War firearms
• A large collection of Swords including presentation swords
• Smith & Wessons from antique to modern

MOST OF THIS AUCTION IS UNRESERVED!  Bid live on or place absentee bids via our website, email, phone or fax.  The entire full color catalog will be online 4-5 weeks prior to the auction WWW.ROCKISLANDAUCTION.COM.  To order your full-color two volume set catalog ($60 inc. S&H) call 800-238-8022.

RIAC 2010 AUCTION RESULTS
Premiere: Sept.10, 11 & 12 & December 3, 4 & 5
Regional: June 26 & 27
We are seeking consignments for our upcoming auctions We are able to take in consignments during the auctions. if you plan on attending an have items you would like to consign save yourself a trip!

RIAC AUCTION RESULTS…

• February sale is RIAC’s Finest Regional Auction to date!
• Over 2.5 Million in Sales!
• 99.9% sell through rate!
• Breaking RIAC Record in attendance with standing room only throughout all of Saturday!
• Prices realized online www.rockislandauction.com

RIAC ON THE ROAD…
Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show
April 10 – 11
Quiktrip Center – Expo Square (Tulsa Fairgrounds) Tulsa, OK

World’s Largest Selection of antique, collector and modern firearms, knives and accessories. More than 4,100 Tables! RIAC will be on the first floor, Row 17 LC Tables 2,3 & 4 and 14,15 & 16

• TAKING IN CONSIGNMENTS for our upcoming auctions. Bring in your firearm(s) to the show, we can transport all firearms to our facility saving you a trip.
• We will also be displaying several lots to be sold in our April 30 & May 1 & 2 Premiere Auction.

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The Legendary Winchester Rifle
By Dale Zimmerman – RIA Employee

The Legendary Winchester 64 Rifle

Rock Island Auction Company

Moline, IL --(AmmoLand.com)- This past weekend I watched John Wayne rule the Wild West with his trusty Winchester rifle. How I would have loved living out the adventures he played on screen! Of course, the old west has been highly romanticized. Still, I often imagine myself learning from the hardships and taking part in the triumphs those early settlers experienced.

Few things represent that golden era more than Winchester. Just mentioning the legendary name takes me to a time when America was charging ever forward, expanding westward; becoming a global player. The Winchester brand was a manufacturing behemoth, a model of American industry. It’s important we remember how intertwined the history of the United States and Winchester firearms truly were. For over a hundred years, classic Winchester rifles were carried by American settlers across the vast frontier and by soldiers on battlefronts too numerous to mention.

It has been nearly fifty years since Winchester’s heyday. It’s sad to see an American legend as large as Winchester fall so fast and so completely. While we drool over the pre-’64 Winchesters and wonder why “they don’t build them like they used to,” there’s something we forget.

Golden Era of Winchester

Winchester was long ago forced to halt production because people were buying newer, “more cost-effective” guns. In an ironic twist, this has left the higher-quality, older guns, like Winchester, collecting dust on the shelves. Of course, other legends of American industry have suffered as well. GM is no longer the king of the auto industry, our politicians have allowed us to become dependant on foreign money and, in general, we have become a shadow of the powerhouse we once were.

The glory days of Winchester was a boon time for this country. Self-reliance was our trademark and classic Winchester rifles were, and are, a shining symbol of our pioneer spirit.

Through grit, determination and sheer force of will, we forged the greatest empire ever known to man. What would America be without those hardened settlers trudging across the great expanse with Winchester in hand and Colt on hip?

Today we find our past slipping away.

Wild West Cowboys With Trusty Winchester Rifles

This alone makes the revered, American made Winchesters such a precious commodity. They’re a direct tie to our historic past. Each firearm contains a portion of this country’s soul.

The sad fact that we now purchase the Winchester brand from foreign markets is an unbelievable disgrace.

Most of us would rather have seen the name die completely than for such a thing to happen. But happen it did. And in a world where our fathers blood, sweat and tears are being sold to the highest bidder – what more could we expect?

We owe it to the few remaining classic Winchesters that they be preserved forever. So much of the detail and workmanship that made these weapons so special have been tossed aside.

That’s why collectors of antique firearms are so very important.

They preserve the history of this country. A history that men like Teddy Roosevelt and Buffalo Bill Cody helped shape. They knew the value of these legendary rifles. Today it is up to us to keep their legacy alive in the hope that we can recapture the magic and the boldness these great guns represent.

About:
Rock Island Auction Company has been solely owned and operated by Patrick Hogan. This company was conceived on the idea that both the sellers and buyers should be completely informed and provided a professional venue for a true auction. After working with two other auction companies, Mr. Hogan began Rock Island Auction in 1993. Rock Island Auction Company has grown to be one of the top firearms auction houses in the nation. Under Mr. Hogan’s guidance the company has experienced growth each and every year; and he is the first to say it is his staff’s hard work and determination that have yielded such results. Visit: www.rockislandauction.com

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