I probably paid a little more on a couple of guns --- but have learned when buying guns, antiques, duck decoys at auction -- you may never get another chance. Case in point: I was bidding on a rare Koelpin bronze of a duck hunter with a dog and decoys in a duck boat, bucking
the waves at a Copley Fine Arts auction (Steven O'Brien Galleries summer auction) -- the bronze was only one of only 25 ever cast --
I quit bidding at close to $10,000 -- it went for a few thousand more --
and I kicked myself for months afterwards (antique duck decoys and sporting bronzes keep increasing in value every year, so I would have done ok if I had stayed in the bidding). By sheer blind luck, (and a good relationship with the gallery and the owner and his daughter, as I have purchased many pieces from them) --they found one of the other Koelpin bronzes (another of the 25 cast) and I bought it immediately.
Remember the old Greek saying: "He who hesitates, is lost".