Need help with value of 1917 Artillery

lugerholsterrepair · 10-11-2009, 12:57 PM

Derek, Congratulations! I am sure you will like it. Artilleries are my collecting passion behind Navies.
As an aside on pricing..my local gun dealer has one of the most beautiful Artilleries I have ever seen. Original blue that must be 99% 1917 fine tune sights. # 852 b if I remember right. Small Germany marked on the left front rail. The owner wants $3000 for it. I offered $2500 because the grips are un numbered and the holdopen was #46. The only mismatched part in it. He's stuck on 3 Grand so I passed. If the grips had been numbered and the holdopen correct I would have caughed up the other 500 smackers as the condition is like no other Artillery I have.
If anyone out there is interested..I have closely inspected this pistol and can vouch for it being what I say it is.

Jerry Burney

10-11-2009, 12:57 PM	#16
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,775 Thanks: 4,995 Thanked 3,134 Times in 1,439 Posts	Derek, Congratulations! I am sure you will like it. Artilleries are my collecting passion behind Navies. As an aside on pricing..my local gun dealer has one of the most beautiful Artilleries I have ever seen. Original blue that must be 99% 1917 fine tune sights. # 852 b if I remember right. Small Germany marked on the left front rail. The owner wants $3000 for it. I offered $2500 because the grips are un numbered and the holdopen was #46. The only mismatched part in it. He's stuck on 3 Grand so I passed. If the grips had been numbered and the holdopen correct I would have caughed up the other 500 smackers as the condition is like no other Artillery I have. If anyone out there is interested..I have closely inspected this pistol and can vouch for it being what I say it is. Jerry Burney __________________ Jerry Burney 11491 S. Guadalupe Drive Yuma AZ 85367-6182 lugerholsterrepair@earthlink.net 928 342-7583 (CO & AZ) Year Round 719 207-3331 (cell) "For those who Fight For It, Life has a flavor the protected will never know."

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