Buy The Gun, Not The Story
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True, not many pictures but they do use a very high resolution camera allowing "blowing up" significantly. More pictures would be nice but given they often sell 3000-5000 items on a weekend there's a practical limit to what they can provide. The printed catalog for the last auction was three volumes and three inches thick. That's a lot of photos to take and publish.
Jeff
SWCA #1457
They have had several that have interested me lately, like this
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It would really round out my K-32 bunch, but some people blew right past me. I hope someone here got it and they show it off some. An early (3 digit SN) Colt SP1 put me into sticker shock.
Smith & Wesson K-32 Hand Ejector First Model Target Revolver
Extremely Rare, Documented Smith & Wesson K-32 Hand Ejector First Model Target Double Action Revolver with Factory LetterThis is one of approximately 94 K-32 Hand Ejector Target revolvers Smith & Wesson manufactured from 1936 to 1941, according to "The Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson" by...
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OP
GR, the $7000 figure is correct, and I believe the fees are 21.5% or $1505, so $8505. That’s a pretty good lick!
Larry
$8225 plus tax/shipping.
OP
Jeff, how did you come to that number. Trying to figure out where I went wrong.
Larry
Go to the closed auction where the price realized is listed.Jeff, how did you come to that number. Trying to figure out where I went wrong.
Larry
Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum Revolver
Texas Shipped First Year Production Smith & Wesson Pre-Model 29 .44 Magnum Double Action Revolver with Case and Factory LetterThis very early production revolver is one of the first 300 .44 Magnums manufactured. The included factory letter lists this first year production revolver with a 6 1/2...
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Jeff
I recently at auction, bought the same item, "S" serial number XF+ with case and tools, very faint turn line, $1,500 plus 10%.
A first year 44 Magnum with box/tools for $1650? That was a good price 20 years ago. Great buy! Pictures?
Jeff
SWCA #1457
I maintain a database on the "S" serial prefix guns. I have 4K+ numbers for ALL the N frame models and much of this data was obtained from shipping invoices! A prototype 44Mag was built on S121836 but the lowest production serial number I have is S130646 on 20 Apr 56. Mr Jinks stated S130705 shipped on 26 Jul 56 and was in the first shipment. We all know S&W did not ship in serial number order and looking at a database you easily see they did not ship in any model order! This means that the serial numbers between S121836 and S130705 could have been any of the N frame models being produced at that time!
jcelect
jcelect
Doc44 said that S&W would number a bunch of 44 Magnum frames and put them in the vault. When they got ready to build guns they just grabbed frames at random. Have seen guns very close in number that shipped a year apart. Here is an invoice and serial number list for you. Has seven N frames on it, in case you need the numbers for your database. 44 Magnums S153063 and S159848 shipped on the same day, 6,785 numbers apart.
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I've never seen a used gun that wasn't rare in some way.
OP
Just because……..there aren’t any members here, besides me, that would take ALL these guns and pay the invoice price in a skinny minute, are there?
I know, I know, the prices from back then are really much higher in today’s money. But, we can dream can’t we? I am also picturing in my mind’s eye opening up that shipping container and seeing all that GOODNESS!
I know some of you work in gun shops, and may open shipping containers full of guns, but it’s just not the same.Larry
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Just because……..there aren’t any members here, besides me, that would take ALL these guns and pay the invoice price in a skinny minute, are there?
Yes, the prices are inexpensive, but in reality, not a good investment....
Think of it this way...If you literally had taken $1000 in 1986 and bought Microsoft stock, you would have $5.25 Million dollars now without doing a thing.
Funny the 38 combat masterpiece was cheaper than the 22
Small caliber machine tools would seem to me to be more intricate and time consuming to build...Also a rimfire firing pin mechanism is a bit more complicated than a centerfire...
...BenAlso note that by looking at the list of serial numbers in post #31, there is a 5" blue .357 in between the .44 Magnum S/Ns.
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