Your Best Flea market find?

[Wyatt Burp]

I found a gun case for a Brownong A-5 shotgun once. I could plainly see the imprint of this distinctve gun in the velvet. The gun breaks down to fit, of course. There was the little Browning emblem. Inside was an ancient heavy brass shotgun cleaning tool. Paid $15. Then sold the case to a Browning dealer in the Shotgun News for $150. And I kept the cleaning rod. Now I look for S&W and Colt grips and rare holsters. No luck there yet.

 

[gunsmith11]

damn I need to start going to flea markets, and garage sales

 

[m1gunner]

Picked up a very specialized aircraft tool at a flea market once. I recognized what it was because I had trained on one exactly like it.

The vendor had bought out a machine shop and was selling everything for scrap prices.

I resold it back into the aviation maintenance market and had a bunch of fun money for the summer.

 

[J. Galt]

An early, not rebuilt, Winchester M1 carbine for $275.

 

[Faulkner]

I found a very nice WWII M4 bayonet with original leather handle made by Imperial with correct original M8 scabbard . . . 8 bucks. Easily worth $75.00

 

[bamabiker]

A $10 bill in the parking lot.

 

[David LaPell]

That would have to have been an original Colt bullet mold for an 1860 Army revolver.

 

[K.38]

Flea market finds were mostly antiques when we went to the markets in Europe.

Yard sale finds in the US include a couple of Hudson Bay blankets, several good books including early Elmer Keith and Teddy Roosevelt. Another find was a Russian SKS plus a case of ammo and two doors down I found 1500 rounds of .308. Traded some the .308 ammo for work and parts on a Smith Corona 1903A3 to put it back to original. Sold and gave away the rest of the ammo for more than I paid which is always nice.

 

[kleinkaliber]

Originally posted by Faulkner:
I found a very nice WWII M4 bayonet with original leather handle made by Imperial with correct original M8 scabbard . . . 8 bucks. Easily worth $75.00

You beat me. I found the same thing at a garage sale for $15.

 

[m657]

Best deal at a yard sale: early production Mod 88 Winchester 243 with original sling & Weaver 4x scope from that era. Didn't know till later the significance of the tri-foil tang design.

Sold it much later for high collector bucks.....oh.....gave $85 for it....the inheriting heir didn't want nothing to do with it.

 

[haggis]

I found a low number Colt Sporter SP-1, with Colt 3x scope, about 15 magazines, and 400 rounds of Lake City for $400 at a garage sale.

Buck

 

[Grayfox]

Once found a Ruger Single Six at a yard sale. Early model, fixed sights and no transfer bar.
Got it for $35. Sold it some years later at a very good profit.

 

[29aholic]

Found a factory nickel pre-15 (lettered) at an Indian artifacts show.

Found a Heuer Carrera chronograph at a yard sale for $2.00

 

[foolproofoak]

Yesterday, I found a Martin Style 0 Ukulele at an estate sale. I payed 15 bucks for it and found out it is worth $600-700

 

[morsecode]

Well, it's not a gun. In fact it wasn't even at a flea market technically. And I didn't buy it cheap...So I don't know why I'm posting it,

except that it's pretty and I've been after one in this color for a while.

 

[Indiana George]

That is nice, Morsecode!

We shot quite a few of the blue/green ones when we were kids!

 

[morsecode]

 

[Smitty500Mag]

I found these new S&W grips for $8 bucks at a flea market.

I found this Millet Benchmaster pistol rest that sells for about $30 on Midwayusa.com for $2. Nobody there knew what it was.

Found most all of my old neon beer signs at flea markets for a tenth of what they sell for on E-bay.

I found a brand new coat one of those Down Under Bushmasters like the cowboys wear that sell for over $100 and got it for $20.

Found a Savage Model 1914 pump .22 rifle, one of the old gallery type rifles at an estate sale for $25 one time. They had it standing in a corner with a bunch of BB guns. I paid my $25 bucks and got the heck out of there before somebody realized that it wasn't a BB gun.

Found 5 nice wooden gun cabinets with glass doors and drawers that I used to keep my guns in before I bought a safe and the most I paid for any one of them was $35. My wife has found antique funiture and china cabinets that we have in the house now at flea markets.

Found a lot of silver items that I've collected over the years at flea markets.

Found a lot of reloading equipment and holsters at these places also.

That's just to name a few things I can think of right now.

Smitty

 

[Class III]

Smitty, I got the same "King Cobra" neon at a garage sale a few years ago, in non working condition for $8.00. Put a new pull chain switch on it from Lowe's for about $4.00 and she burned bright.

About six years ago I went to an estate sale and picked up a Model 59 Blue and a Model 59 Nickel, both NIB with all paperwork, extra mag and tools. Price was marked $200.00 on each. I offered $300.00 for both and we settled on $325.00. They still reside, unmolested, in the safe.

Class III

 

[sureshotbob]

Moriscode by chance were you at the estate auction in Terryville last weekend as they had a few of the insulator's left to be sold ? But the thing was that my stepsons grandmother sold a few thousand of them a few year's ago to a dealer from CT. some were very rare from the 1850's she had all the color's.