Bought a M631,2" SS, non LS,32mag this wkend. Are these rare? I saw 1 for sale for over 2K. Randall

There really isn't much to compare to. There were only maybe a hundred or so of these built, and they are very rarely seen for sale. It's just a matter of how badly you want it. Ken

Use the search button at the top of the page and search '631 non Ladysmith' and you'll pull several previous threads on the issue. Here's one:

Model 631

Supposedly some 5500 of these were made with only 190 being the two inch non LS putting a hefty rarity factor on them. However, I've seen quite a few for sale on GB and elsewhere and believe the number produced to be considerably higher than 190; just my opinion though. I would not be willing to pay double (or more) the price of a LS marked gun. I do like the little 32 631s though and have a four inch and one of the two inch LSs. Good luck.

Jeff
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And another thought, I don't think it would be very difficult to turn a $900 LS marked 631 in to a $1800 non-LS 631. The LS mark appears just etched and I suspect a small amount of polishing would remove it. Perhaps others will have thoughts on the difficulty of "converting" an LS to a collectible non-LS gun.

Jeff
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I agree w/ Jeff above, if there are 190 2" non-LS 631s and (generally estimated) 1500 4"-ers out there one would expect (over time) to see roughly 8 times as many 4"-ers offered. I've followed this mkt fairly closely for 4/5 years now and the ratio is nowhere close to this. This has always seemed odd to me.

Having said that, something pushing $2K is what I would expect a 2" LNIB to sell for currently.