thumper wrote:
....I'm referring to the "vintage collection" category of their homepage .....I've never seen a listing that wasn't already 'sold'..............
I'm a bit confused. Neither 'vintage' nor 'collection' appear on the airgunsofarizona.com home page. Where are you seeing this listing? Can you share a link? There is a 'used guns' page linked from their homepage -
https://www.airgunsofarizona.com/usedguns.html - but all the guns there seem to be available for purchase, so that can't be it, right? Oh wait... Google found it for me:
https://www.airgunsofarizona.com/Used Guns/VintageCollection.html
Huh, weird that they leave a space between 'Used' and 'Guns' - I thought every web developer ever (barring DIY pages on old AOL and Geocities sites) understood that leaving a gap in a link is pure poison, leads to lots of problems depending on which of the many browsers are used by potential visitors. Oh well, none of my business, just seems kinda amateurish for such a big store.
As for the 'collection' all being sold, well, Mr Marvin's page often shows more than half his guns as sold, so hardly a one of a kind situation. Heck, I show a number of violins on my own website which have long since been sold, and I indicate as much on each of their pages. I leave them up as reference for those who may be interested in seeing such stuff. Some of them are very little represented online, and one violin maker isn't mentioned on any other website in the world; a brilliant Depression-era maker in Saskatoon whose violin from 1935 I had the privilege of restoring to playable condition and selling to a fine violinist. Such resources can be invaluable for researchers or enthusiasts, so I leave those pages up. Not trying to tease anyone with something that's not available... quite the contrary, I'm sharing information. Don't know if that's what AoA's vintage guns page is about but perhaps you should email them and ask?