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Old 03-26-2020, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by handejector View Post
I forgot to say that the US marked guns bring significantly more than "double".
I think this is the key. A gun like the one Lee showed has provenance as a gun purchased by and for the Army and will be valued as such.

The document you describe appears to show a gun purchased commercially and just shipped to a military residence in an interesting place, with no provenance regarding the buyer and circumstances. So any added value would depend on a buyer agreeing that the destination justifies it.

We discussed a similar case some time ago on another forum. Someone had a surplus Walther pistol with some base registration papers from Guantanamo and thought he had something special. But the general collector reaction was “Meh, so a soldier bought the gun while stationed in Germany and then was reassigned to Cuba. If that floats your boat ... “
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