I love the 39-2 and have 4...2 blue and 2 nickel. $950 is top end in my mind and think $200 less than that would be an OK face to face deal for LNIB blue with box and papers...I said OK not great but JMHO. I don't usually use GB as a price check because although there are guns there that a person might not find locally the prices are often quite surprising...it represents the most that will be paid by a very large pool of buyers and not what can be expected day to day. If a seller wants GB prices then he/she needs to list their gun there and not expect that a price achieved on GB is now magically the value of all similar guns everywhere.
The right price for a blue LNIB 39-2 is as much as having that gun means to you. I would pay more for an unfired nickel 39-2 especially if the controls are nickel as well...most nickel 39-2's had blue controls.
A 39-2 that has been fired can usually be identified by the top of the tang where the hammer hits during slide operation. It leaves a mark that will only happen when fired and not hand cycling. You can also look at the barrel for contact marks.
Bad pics but see the mark on the blue tang? This gun has only about 50 rounds through it. It's a bit hard to tell on the nickel but there is no contact mark on the tang at all...unfired except factory. I guess I can't say this is true for all 39's but it's true for my 3 that have been fired.
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