Several points to ponder---------------------------
If you sell it to a dealer at a gun show, you're going to get the wholesale value (let's say 60% of retail)------or less. If you sell it to an individual hanging around outside (or inside), you're likely to get haggled to death! That's all well and good if you have the patience for such things----I don't. The gun will bring substantially more with the stocks repaired. Kurt Vogler ("Hammerdown") can very likely repair them such that you'd be hard pressed to notice it. (You may wish to consider postponing the sale until they're repaired.) You'll get more selling it on Gun Broker (or whatever) than you're likely to get at a gun show----other than perhaps Las Vegas. Your gun appears to be the standard finish. I showed one of mine with the "bright blue" finish to David Carroll two years ago----and asked him what it was worth----------$2,000. (!!!) The condition of mine (as new) was perhaps very slightly better than yours (as near as I can tell)-------but not enough to talk about. It seems unlikely the difference in value between standard finish and "bright blue" amounts to the difference in values we've seen here. Bottom Line: I'd be tickled to death to buy a gun like yours for $1,000, but I'll be damned if I'd sell it for $1,000-------and that's not an offer---I already have 11 of them---as in: Some's good, more's better, and too much is just right!!
Ralph Tremaine
