Wow! Pre War N frame stocks with medallions @ $377

[mrcvs]

This seems absolutely insane! Add in shipping & sales tax, and you're into these for over $400.

Smith & Wesson Pre War N Frame Wood Diamond Grips Used | eBay

It wasn't that long ago that these struggled to bring $225 or $250.

For this kind of money, I'd expect the earlier non medallion concave stocks which were manufactured until mid 1910.

 

[22hipower]

I had those on my watch list. Expensive but perhaps not an outrageous price if you had a gun needing a nice set. I was hoping to buy them but at considerably less than $400.

Jeff
SWCA #1457

 

[SAFireman]

I sold a set to a very well known member here for $350 FTF @ Tulsa a few years back.

If you think that is high, try buying some pre-war Magnas

 

[Keith Brown]

Can't get it to open, can you post pictures.

 

[Keith Brown]

Found them. That's a pretty good set, they have finish slathered on them but it should rinse right off. The checkering has been left alone, that's a big plus ! They haven't made them in near a hundred years, buy them when priced where you can justify the price or pay up if you need them to complete a package. Collectors mess everything up !!��

 

[spin132]

Here are some of the photos

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[Roscoe P]

Dang! I have a triple lock that needed this set so I bid this odd number thinking they probably wouldnt go over $350 but the next highest bidder bid the exact same amount! I feel I got shilled and let the seller know it. He did not reply. I looked at the next highest bidders feedback and he had no retractions in the last year. I suspect software may be out there that enables AI assisted shilling. Well Im suppost to receive them Monday and yes I will give them an acetone bath to remove that finish.

 

[paplinker]

Dang! I have a triple lock that needed this set so I bid this odd number thinking they probably wouldnt go over $350 but the next highest bidder bid the exact same amount! I feel I got shilled and let the seller know it. He did not reply. I looked at the next highest bidders feedback and he had no retractions in the last year. I suspect software may be out there that enables AI assisted shilling. Well Im suppost to receive them Monday and yes I will give them an acetone bath to remove that finish.

Imagine a guy really wants these grips and 375.00 is his ceiling.A nice round number. He figures I would hate to lose these over a dollar. So he bids two dollars over hoping for some luck.

Now if you had bid 378.55 that would be an odd number.

 

[mrcvs]

Dang! I have a triple lock that needed this set so I bid this odd number thinking they probably wouldnt go over $350 but the next highest bidder bid the exact same amount! I feel I got shilled and let the seller know it. He did not reply. I looked at the next highest bidders feedback and he had no retractions in the last year. I suspect software may be out there that enables AI assisted shilling. Well Im suppost to receive them Monday and yes I will give them an acetone bath to remove that finish.

Now, what are the odds two bidders randomly bid $377? It also seems suspicious to me.

I wouldn't put these in an acetone bath nor do anything whatsoever with them. They look great just the way they are.

 

[DARE]

Think I paid $350 for these a year or so ago. Needed them for a Triple Lock and was only nice pair I could find.

 

[bigmtnman]

About 22 years ago I put a really pristine pair of those with great figure up on Ebay with a $50 start. I thought they were worth at least that. I was not yet up to speed on S&W grip/stock values. That education began the next year (2003) when I joined this Forum They got bid up and sold for $450 (in 2002 !!). They had come in a box of 14 pairs (all S&W) that I won on a Gunbroker auction for $50 for the whole box !! The auction had no pictures or description other than 14 pairs of used S&W grips .... $50 starting bid. I was the only bidder. Ah yes...the "good old days". I think I got around $1,200 total out of the stocks in that box

 

[weatherby]

The last pair I bought was a year and a half ago.
They were 350 or 450 I don't remember exactly.

They did come with steel attached.

 

[RKmesa]

The last pair I bought was a year and a half ago.
They were 350 or 450 I don't remember exactly.

They did come with steel attached.

It's always fun when you buy the grips and get the gun for free.