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RIAC Newsletter Archive

By: Emily RobinsonPublished in RIAC Latest · 3 min read · September 1, 2020
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  • /RIAC Newsletter Archive

RIAC Newsletter Archive

By: Emily RobinsonPublished in RIAC Latest · 3 min read · September 1, 2020

Want to catch up on Rock Island Auction Company's newsletters? Every newsletter has been posted starting at the beginning of 2019 up through the last one can be found here. Hundreds of pages of gun content, photos and videos lies within.

Past newsletters contain links to blogs, news, auction highlights, prices realized, videos and firearms photography. We send newsletters weekly, if you are new to RIAC and want to catch up on past newsletters and learn about previous auctions this is the page for you.


2021 RIAC Newsletters

1/30/2021 RIAC Remembers the Vegas Antique Arms Show

1/23/2021 Auction Date Change!

1/16/2021 The Unconverted M1903

1/9/2021 📈 1911 Prices & Trends

1/1/2021 The Top 20 Guns of 2020!

2020 RIAC Newsletters

12/25/2020 Merry Christmas From RIAC

12/18/2020 The Last Auction of 2020!

12/11/2020 Watch Roosevelt's Colt Sell for $1.4 MILLION!

11/28/2020 The Sale of the Century is Here!

11/21/2020 The Top 10 Video is Finally Here!

11/14/2020 We Shoot Elvis Presley's S&W Revolver

11/7/2020 If you read only one email from us, make it this one.

10/31/2020 Premier Digital Catalogs Are Here

10/24/2020 Sale of the Century Catalog Released

10/17/2020 A Spooky Online Auction- Oct 30

10/03/2020 Sporting & Collector Auction This Week!

09/26/2020 Pistol Knives and Flamethrowers?!

09/19/2020 Hunting Season Is Coming…

09/05/2020 We Built A Trading Post… IN OUR PREVIEW HALL?

08/29/2020 Top 10 Guns of the September Premier!

08/22/2020 Leading the Way on D-Day

08/15/2020 Bob Dalton & The Coffeyville Raid

08/08/2020 Premier Catalogs Are Being Shipped!

08/01/2020 The Legendary Life Story of Mitchell WerBell III

07/25/2020 September Premier Catalog Now Online!

07/18/2020 Rock Island Auction VICE?

07/11/2020 July Online Auction This Wednesday!

07/02/2020 October Auction Catalog Now Online

06/27/2020 Browse Our September Preview Booklet

06/20/2020 More Preview Photos Added!

06/12/2020 See Our September Premier Photo Preview

05/30/2020 The Top 10 Video is Finally HERE!

05/23/2020 Cool Under Fire: Civil War Colonel Jacob Frick

05/16/2020 A Week to Commemorate Memorial Day

05/09/2020 The Art of War: Swords and Revolvers from Tiffany & Co.

05/02/2020 Top 100 Guns of the June Premier: 90-81 - Additions Online Auction

04/30/2020 Top 100 Guns of the June Premier: 100-91

04/25/2020 A Golden Shotgun for Clark Gable's True Love

04/18/2020 Guns of Pretty Boy Floyd and Al Capone

04/04/2020 JUST ANNOUNCED! Our April 9th Online Auction

03/28/2020 MORE New Auctions to Keep You Busy!

03/20/2020 New Auction Dates and ADDED Auctions!

03/18/2020 Auction Schedule April Premier & Next Online Moved Up

03/14/2020 April Premier Catalog Available

03/07/2020 Long Arms of the Union Army

02/28/2020 March Online Auction in 4 Days!

02/08/2020 Auction Week is HERE!

02/01/2020 The LARGEST Gun Auction EVER is Coming Soon!

01/25/2020 Vote Kevin Hogan for NRA Board of Directors

01/18/2020 Are These the Best Lever Actions?

01/04/2020 Mannlicher's Unsung Genius


2019 RIAC Newsletters


12/27/2019 The Top 10 Guns of 2019

12/20/2019 Top 10 Colt Single Actions We've Ever Sold

11/29/2019 Forget Black Friday. Make A Lifetime Investment

11/22/2019 Annie Oakley's Golden Marlin 1897

11/15/2019 Thursday Is Our Last Online Auction of 2019

11/8/2019 Newly Discovered Panel Scene Colt SAA!

11/01/2019 The Battle At Denver City Hall

10/25/2019 The Personal Collection of Master Engraver A.A. White

10/18/2019 The "Queen of the Pioneers" Colt Lightning

10/11/2019 Birth of the Winchester Model 70

10/05/2019 How "America's Rifle" Came to Be

09/27/2019 December's Preview + Our Top 15 Guns Ever Sold!

09/20/2019 Our Next Online Only Auction is October 24th

08/30/2019 The Colt Single Action Army of Sammy Davis Jr.

08/23/2019 Marvelous Smith & Wesson Revolvers

08/16/2019 The Factory Presentation Winchester of Zane Grey

08/09/2019 An Original 1877 Colt "Bulldog" Gatling Gun

08/02/2019 Winchester: Benchmarks in High Condition

07/26/2019 Our 2019 September Premier Catalog is Live

07/19/2019 The Last Colt Walker

07/12/2019 Our Online Only Auction is Thursday

07/04/2019 Find Your Next Gun In Our July Online Only Auction

06/14/2019 June Auction is NEXT WEEK!

06/07/2019 Our New Video with Demolition Ranch!

05/31/2019 How Does the Philadelphia Deringer Affect Laws Today?

05/24/2019 The Most Guns Ever in a RIAC Auction!

05/17/2019 June Catalog is Up & Online Auction is Thursday

04/26/2019 May Premier Auction Is Next Week!

04/19/2019 A U.S. Indian Agent's Rare Colt Revolver

04/12/2019 Fantastic Firsts: Colt XM16E1 and Parker Brother .410

04/05/2019 May's BIG Guns + Demolition Ranch!

03/29/2019 Will This Colt Break the World Record?

03/22/2019 May Catalog is Now Online

03/15/2019 The Tiffany Sword of General Forsyth

03/08/2019 New Gun Videos!

03/01/2019 May Preview and Our Top 15 Guns of All Time!

02/08/2019 Nearly 10,000 Gun Auction begins Thursday

02/01/2019 Vote Kevin Hogan for NRA Board

01/25/2019 Win $1,000 in Auction Credit!

01/18/2019 The Practical, Popular Pepperbox Pistol

01/11/2019 February Regional Catalogs Are Shipping

01/04/2019 The Top 10 Items of 2018


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