The receiving FFL.

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At the other end of the spectrum, the S&W SVDE 9mm was $279.00 on May 9 on CDNN and today is at $349.99 on CDNN. Maybe time to save your cash and enjoy the guns that you have - for now.

No, you can't... not today, except maybe a battered shooter with no bluing left. Low end Pythons are in the $2300-2500 range these days.

It helps to consider that online auctions or even live auctions can be used as tools for influencing market value. So you have to wonder did the revolver actually sell to a valid auction buyer or did perhaps the owner buy it back through somebody else ? The auctioneer is concerned only with his premium and legal sales after that he really need not worry as his commission/premium is intact.

Why would anybody do this ? Well for insurance valuation it does not take many top ticket auction sales like this to raise the tide or ACV ( actual market value ) which claims are settled on . Today’s adjusters rely more and more on online sales numbers and honestly many adjusters never trudge through the computer time to verify what an auction lot actually sells for. There are many other operators out there who can benefit from inflated values so nobody should be surprised by this whatever you want to call it

Rick

I've got a 3" Model 13 is similar condition I would gladly sell for $1500. LOL

So many I've sold over the years... boo hoo.

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WOW I still carry my 19-5. I gave a whole lot less for mine.

The prices on Smiths is going crazy again today on RIA

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Beautiful example of a non P&R 2.5” 19 without the box and goodies. For me it’s a $650 to $800 gun. $1600+ is just silly, I don’t care how much money you have.

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I found this post by my brother back in Feb 2012. This is the gun I was referring to in the above post.
It looks like it increased in value quite a bit.

"My Model 11-4 is serial numbered C570307. Blue, 4 inch barrel, square butt, checkered Magna stocks, 4 screw frame, lanyard loop, .38 S&W chambering. Factory marked "SAP" on the backstrap. New in the original box that had labels indicating that it was part of the S&W factory collection. It has a tag indicating the gun was S&W's inventory item CAB #1-15-25. Looks basically like a regular .38 Special Model 10 M&P.

I bought it from Jim Supica's OLD TOWN STATION shop in 1997, from a sales catalog he published. The Jinks factory letter with it said the revolver was made for export to the South African Police in the 1960's but never shipped, probably part of a contract overrun. S&W recently had donated much of their collection to the Connecticutt River Valley History Museum, who then auctioned duplicates and things that didn't fit into the museum's theme of items made in the valley. The auction was conducted by Butterfield & Butterfield Auction Gallery in San Francisco, CA on June 23, 1996.

Jinks' book says, in the K frame section, that these guns resulted from post-war (WWII) demand for what were commercial versions of the .38 S&W Victories for a British Commonwealth country. The first of what we could call "pre-Model 11" guns were part of a contract of 10,009 guns that were completed by August, 1947. The factory received other contracts for this gun in the 1950's and 1960's, and I guess were model marked or named in accordance with whatever the numbers and dash variants were in use at the time for the similar guns in .38 Special.

SCS&W III said shipping of these guns lasted until 1970. Both books said the guns were never cataloged.

That is a good price if you want the gun. I paid $505 for mine in 1997."

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