Old magazines, reading material not mags/clips

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

A friend of mine gave me over 50 years of several magazines his father had collected, Guns and Ammo, Gun Collector etc. most are in fairly good condition.
They have very interesting editorials, especially during 1968 and 1978 etc.

The question is to they have any value, I was thinking of putting them, probably by years on ebay but don't want to waste my time if no one would be interested in them.

 

[HCD]

I know the ones I collect Fur-Fish-Game have in the back, adds where you can buy past issues some years and editions cost more than others. Maybe yours has a similar feature.

 

[Brian41]

It's been a few years but I used to buy those old mags for a couple bucks at antique shops. Great reading but they didn't used to have a huge value even at retail prices. Times could have changed though.

 

[Rule3]

Only if they have centerfolds.

When we cleaned my parents house out, they had a lot of mags, Life, and stuff like that. I enjoyed looking at the ads more than the articles. My how things and prices have changed!

 

[truckemup97]

I don't know about gun mags, but when I worked for an estate auctioneer, we dreaded houses with National Geographic. Not only did the subscribers feel that every issue should be saved in the attic, but their heirs thought they should be worth thousands of dollars. Usually we had to put them with something to even get a bid.

Check e-Bay for prices. You never know, you might get $5/year if the right person is drunk bidding.

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

$5 a year is what I figured tops, it is a way to build feedback on ebay.

I would think that some of the shooting mags from the late 50's and early 60's in full year sets would see if I start them at .99 cents

You never know, after all I once sold an empty box on ebay

 

[Dashriprock]

If you do put them on eBay, please post back here. I'd be interested in purchasing complete years of some of them. Or, if you'd like to sell some of them outright, please PM me!

 

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I am going to spent the next couple weeks organizing them by year and type (i.e. what magazines they are) and I will post them back here, or on the sales page with a link here.
I hate to throw them out, although I was able to toss 20 years of Nat Geographic's without a qualm.

 

[29aholic]

FWIW I gave $50 for the set of Guns and Ammo from 1966...of course that's my birth year

 

[cowart]

I just ran a completed auctions search on Ebay, and I see where someone bought 24 assorted issues of Guns and Ammo for $9.99 plus $8.75 shipping.

 

[David LaPell]

Unless there is a rare issue there, figure on maybe a couple bucks here or there per issue. They really don't start to get any value until you get from the 1950's on back, by the 60's and 70's there were alot of different magazines. Even the really old ones, like the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's are usually only around $5.00 to $10 an issue at gun shows, and those are alot of the Elmer Keith years.

 

[desi2358]

Yeah, I've been thinking about clearing out 30 years worth of gun mags. Most aren't worth much though I've bought some really old ones in that time. Probably donate the newer ones to the reading table at the gun shop and try to sell the older ones. Love the old articles and the adds, really neat to track the prices of things across the years and look at what was being sold surplus. I never was able to pass up old gun literature at sales, have NRA mags back to the 1920's.