S&W Model 58 No Dash

[Wengayoo]

Hi All,

I am looking at a S&W Model 58 1968 vintage. I has the factory box and all paperwork. It looks to be in very good condition, just a few surface scratches, but so hard to tell from high-res photos which can be deceiving. Asking price is $1490, I think is high, but the gun is so rare, it is enticing. I was thinking the worth is around $1200? What do you think?

Thanks for any input, Brian

 

[Wengayoo]

BB and TGV rate it at ~$1000 in the condition, but they seem to sell for more due to the rarity....

 

[robbt]

diamond center grips

 

[22hipower]

I paid $1350 for one supposed ANIB about two years ago, here from the Classifieds. Probably a little too much then, as $1490 may be for the one you're looking at. On the other hand I started looking for one quite a few years ago and always decided the price was "too high." And that's when you could buy one without the box/papers for $800ish. Yes, $1490 is too much, if you can buy it for less, great. If you don't buy it, who knows what the price will be a few years from now. Good luck.

Jeff
SWCA #1457

 

[SuperMan]

$1200 in the original box with PC Magna stocks numbered to the gun is a pretty fair deal. There are fewer and fewer on the auction sites lately...

$1500 better be mint...

 

[robbt]

hi , I had the same thoughts eventually , I bought a late nickel and a early one without original numbered grips, I did finally find a set of numbered diamond grips but with a non matching serial number, believe its time to clean my two model 58'sr

 

[pantannojack]

If you/we wait long enough, the present owners of these things will die / us as well, then the family will not know what they have and sell cheap. and so the story goes.

 

[dsf]

Hi All,

I am looking at a S&W Model 58 1968 vintage. I has the factory box and all paperwork. It looks to be in very good condition, just a few surface scratches, but so hard to tell from high-res photos which can be deceiving. Asking price is $1490, I think is high, but the gun is so rare, it is enticing. I was thinking the worth is around $1200? What do you think?

Thanks for any input, Brian

Not sure where you are in OR, but I got this in 2022 at a LGS in Grants Pass for all of $750.00 -



I have an ANIB that I don't want to shoot. This one is in great shape, but no box & stuff. It's an S prefix and came with diamond stocks, but they weren't rounded type. The gun store didn't know what was correct, they would have charged same if the grips were correct.

I think I got an OK deal, so may be worth looking about some more.

 

[Hair Trigger]

Hi All,

I am looking at a S&W Model 58 1968 vintage. I has the factory box and all paperwork. It looks to be in very good condition, just a few surface scratches, but so hard to tell from high-res photos which can be deceiving. Asking price is $1490, I think is high, but the gun is so rare, it is enticing. I was thinking the worth is around $1200? What do you think?

Thanks for any input, Brian

Everybody who posted above has valid advice. In the end, though, a gun is worth whatever you're willing to pay for it if you want it bad enough. I think $1490 is a bit high unless it is perfect and unfired and even then is a premium price. I bought a M58 about three years ago for $1250 that is about the same age as the one you're interested in (letters to 1967) and it was unfired and new in the box, had been sitting in two different safes since new. I drove 8 hours (4 each way) to get it from the second owner. It's pretty hard to find a really nice one that old, though, so if you want it bad enough, you do what you feel you have to.

And by the way, you don't have to say "no dash" with a M58. Original production models are all no-dash, one of a few S&W's that are like that. Makes it a little more special.

 

[dsf]

^
FWIW and to save my life, I couldn't name a single gun that I remember paying "too much" for and regretting it. I can however, go down a list of guns I passed on because at the time I (made the mistake) of thinking it was "too much" and not buying.

Money is a renewable commodity.

 

[Wengayoo]

Great input, thanks very much. I'm in negotiation mode, would like to add to my collection. Pictures are so hard to read. I find high-res pics exaggerate the flaws and are a double-edged sword when trying to sell or buy online.

 

[Hawg Rider]

Great input, thanks very much. I'm in negotiation mode, would like to add to my collection. Pictures are so hard to read. I find high-res pics exaggerate the flaws and are a double-edged sword when trying to sell or buy online.

You didn't mention if the Model 58 is blued or nickel. It makes a difference because if it is nickel it is worth a premium, and the $1490 is realistic. There were far fewer Model 58s manufactured than Model 57s so you are correct in that they are the more rare .41 Magnums. Even a 95% blue Model 58 is worth a lot these days. IMO, if you can grab that revolver package for around $1300 you'll have done good.

 

[Hair Trigger]

Great input, thanks very much. I'm in negotiation mode, would like to add to my collection. Pictures are so hard to read. I find high-res pics exaggerate the flaws and are a double-edged sword when trying to sell or buy online.

One of the primary reasons I don't buy a gun I can't see "in person" and handle.

The M58 I bought, I learned about on this forum. The owner wanted to sell it without having to ship it and preferred a face-to face sale. Lucky for the both of us I read his post and lucky for both of us we live in the same state and are both CC permit holders. He lived more than half way across the state, but I had been looking for a nice M58 to go with my M57 and his was doubly nice because of its history and that it was a year older than my M57. He had priced it based on the SCSW value given in the 4th Ed, with a little added for appreciation since 2016. I talked him down a little and we were both happy at the end. He was happy to pass it on to someone who appreciated where and who it had come from and knew it was getting a good home. He inherited it from his LE partner's estate, but he was in his 80's and selling off much of his collection. He had kept it unfired in his safe for over 20 years, and his partner had purchased it new and kept it in his safe for even longer. This is no joke, his partner's last name was Smith. Wanna guess what his last name was?

It's no longer unfired, but it still looks great, and will become part of my estate that goes to my family.

 

[Wengayoo]

This is an early blued.

 

[Model19man]

M57, in the original box, perfect, with the original paperwork and tools, i can see paying the price. M58 not so much.

 

[wbraswell]

Will you have more guilt over the gun you bought or the one you let get away?

 

[glenncal1]

I don't know if the OP's gun is "worth" $1490, but full package guns (box, docs, tools etc.) have for the past few years commanded a pretty good premium over just a bare gun.