Can we find out the winning bid?
These are going up for auction on December 2, 3, and 4. Usually with these Auction Zip online and local auctions where the biding is handled simultaneously in real time, the final bid will be available for several days after the Auction. However, some of the Auction Zip auction houses take the finals down very quickly, some times at the end of the auction, so if you don't look quickly, they are gone, or will say "Realized Price Not Available."
In addition, the final bid price is NOT the price the buyer will finally pay. There is also a 20.5% buyer's premium on top of the bid price which is always paid by the buyer to compensate the auctioneer. For example, if the final bid is $100,000, the actual selling price paid to the auction house will be $120,500 plus sales tax. So when figuring what a collectible gun is worth, THAT price would be what you look at when you say what a willing buyer paid. The willing seller let it go for $100,000, but the willing buyer paid $120,500. You can also argue the willing buyer also was willing to pay whatever the sales tax was on top of that in figuring the value of the antique firearm. Thus, if the sales tax rate is 8%, then the actual value of the gun a wiling buyer would pay is $130,140. That is what it should be insured for.