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Good suggestion but I believe this is a Private Party newspaper type ad.
If so it should sell quickly if its a middle class type area.
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Model 23 .38-44 value
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Good suggestion but I believe this is a Private Party newspaper type ad.
If so it should sell quickly if its a middle class type area.
I bet ten people on here would offer a $1000.00 finders fee for that LGS phone number 
What you don't want to do regardless of your current financial position is look back with regret. If you can flat out just walk away or pass on your information onto someone in a better position fine. I'm still kicking myself for not buying Microsoft at $17, passing on a '67 Corvette roadster I helped restore at $10K, and a super prime Winchester model 1885 about five years ago in 40-82 with set triggers, dies, brass, everything for $2K. I should have taken out a second mortgage on the Corvette as well as the Microsoft...hindsight is 20-20.
I never had the cajones to challenge the family debt when it came to what I considered investments. Good for you if you can walk away, its probably the adult thing to do.
I never had the cajones to challenge the family debt when it came to what I considered investments. Good for you if you can walk away, its probably the adult thing to do.
Spots:
Did you happen to get the serial number of this Model 23 ?
Jerry
Did you happen to get the serial number of this Model 23 ?
Jerry
Sell a kid, buy the gun....you can always have more kids but you'll never see another model marked 23!
THE PILGRIM
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Own, have owned, have seen quite a number of Smith Revolvers.
Have never seen one of these!
Have never seen one of these!
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Spots
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This belongs to a forum member now. I'll leave it at that and not steal anyone's thunder.
austintexas
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funds
Back in the old days as a fairly young Airman my go to place for funds was the Credit Union. They had short term Signature loans. When my '55 Chevy needed a engine transplant, $100 junkyard engine, Just arrived at new base needed transportation $3300 for a 75 Dodge Charger, All Short Term Signature loans. Way better than the downtown Load Sharks. Made some rank, built up savings and didn't have to do that anymore.
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Back in the old days as a fairly young Airman my go to place for funds was the Credit Union. They had short term Signature loans. When my '55 Chevy needed a engine transplant, $100 junkyard engine, Just arrived at new base needed transportation $3300 for a 75 Dodge Charger, All Short Term Signature loans. Way better than the downtown Load Sharks. Made some rank, built up savings and didn't have to do that anymore.
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I'd have bought the Model 23 and let the family, including me, eat cornbread and mustard greens. Then I would have flipped it.
Don't need an N frame .38 special.
Kids are overrated.
Don't need an N frame .38 special.
Kids are overrated.
Member Spots is an honorable man
Stand by for a detailed post and plenty of pics.
Stand by for a detailed post and plenty of pics.
Here are a few pics
As I wait for its arrival …
Little bit of discoloration on right side plate but that won’t bother me
As I wait for its arrival …
Little bit of discoloration on right side plate but that won’t bother me
please explain what is a model 23.
Very nice Mike, you acted quickly on that while I was debating whether to contact the OP.
Jeff
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A rare model stamped .38/44 Outdoorsman, made between 1958 and about 1966. Plenty of pre-model guns of this type but one of those collector-level finds.
A model 23 is just a 38/44 outdoorsman that was given a model number in 1960 appx
And the 38/44 heavy duty became the model 20
I want one of the 1950 Targets in .45 Colt that are listed on that invoice!!!
Jim Watson
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Now I have to go look at mine, it has been on the bottom of the stack for so long I don't remember the vintage.
I got it from a collector who said that when the original owner heard that non-magnum N frames were being discontinued, he dashed out and found this Outdoorsman. Then he had the service department put on red and white sights, target hammer, and target stocks like his Magnums. Not a target trigger, though. Which is OK with me.
I looked, no model number, SN in the S140000 range = 1955.
Interestingly, SN is only on the butt, not the barrel or cylinder.
In spite of the legend of the factory upgrade, it has no service star or date.
I got it from a collector who said that when the original owner heard that non-magnum N frames were being discontinued, he dashed out and found this Outdoorsman. Then he had the service department put on red and white sights, target hammer, and target stocks like his Magnums. Not a target trigger, though. Which is OK with me.
I looked, no model number, SN in the S140000 range = 1955.
Interestingly, SN is only on the butt, not the barrel or cylinder.
In spite of the legend of the factory upgrade, it has no service star or date.
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And you'd probably like one for that $58.40 price too.
This isn't one of those three but it is one.
Jeff
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