Coke grips or is the seller on coke??

[schutz5]

OK I need you experts to figure this out....

I have heard about "buying the gun for the grips" but buying the grips for the price of a fine revolver??

Smith & Wesson Vintage Factory Original N Frame Diamond Target Grips | eBay

 

[ditrina]

 

[KalamazooKid]

Why blame the seller? There were 16 bids - someone really wanted them!

 

[Shark Bait]

I'm thinking that the buyer was on coke

 

[lkabug]

It says shipping is to zip code 23117. That's my zip code! But it wasn't me.
Would "cokes" have the serial number stamped on the right panel?

 

[doublesharp]

link wouldn't work on my chromebook - how much did they bring? I saw a pair bring around $800 recently.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Both parties appear happy.

 

[Skeet 028]

With a small chip out of the left panel?

 

[Beemerguy53]

OK I need you experts to figure this out....

I have heard about "buying the gun for the grips" but buying the grips for the price of a fine revolver??

Free enterprise is a beautiful thing...

 

[boykinlp]

That's sure making the value of some of my guns go up!
Larry

 

[Narragansett]

I do not have any " cokes", and at that price, the drought is sure to continue

 

[Breakaway500]

There was a time when $100 would buy you a large box of wood grip take offs. Same thing for factory air cleaners for classic cars.Once trash now gold!

 

[rubiranch]

A couple of years ago I asked George Dye of Salt Lake Collectibles to find
me a really nice set of Coke Bottle Grips, and he did.

They are like new, perfect and beautiful. I think I paid $425 for them.





My favorite handgun wears them, my 1960 6 1/2" M27.




Twins It matches my 1964 6 1/2" M29-2.

 

[rubiranch]

There was a time when $100 would buy you a large box of wood grip take offs. Same thing for factory air cleaners for classic cars. Once trash now gold!

I'm trying to find and factory air cleaner for a 1966-67 Mercury
Marauder 410 without it bankrupting me.

 

[goatsnguns]

I was watching the "Coke" auction, it started at $300 and at $701 it was just between two bidders, adult beverages may have been involved, but more likely...egos. There was a much nicer pair offered the previous week for $675 and apparently sold for less than that as best offer was accepted. I have noticed that the auctions with a low start bid seem to do better in the long run.

 

[austintexas]

Grips

I bought a prewar 38/44 HD at a gunshow for $550. It had been buffed and reblued, just a shooter. The icing was it was sporting a nice pair of prewar Magnas. I pulled the Magnas and sold the gun a week later for $600 to a gentleman that was looking for a shooter.
SWCA 892

 

[DWalt]

This was about 10 years ago, but I passed up an average condition pre-27 with a nice pair of Cokes on it priced at $800. I still don't know what I was thinking at the time.

 

[boykinlp]

A couple of years ago I asked George Dye of Salt Lake Collectibles to find
me a really nice set of Coke Bottle Grips, and he did.

They are like new, perfect and beautiful. I think I paid $425 for them.

Kenny,
George definitely found you a beautiful pair of Cokes. Just wondering if you might be like myself though. When I think something happened a couple of years ago, if I really think about it, it might be more like 6-7 years ago. Why, because time flies when you're having fun........or as we get older!
Larry

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Wow! That's more than I paid for my Pre-29 with Cokes!

 

[DARE]

You are killing us, THE PILGRIM. But good for you!
Makes me wish for a "do not like" button for the post, ha ha.