Loading tool prices??
 

Just picked up a loading tool off eBay, WW1, crown marked for $56.
Can anyone tell me what would the difference be between my one and one that has an asking price of over say $200.
Assuming mine is not a fake??!!

Original one are going for approx $175 to $200.
Bob

So you think mines a fake? Will post a pic as soon as work out how to do it

Well, sometimes you get lucky and things are sold way under their market value.

Last year I bought a very nice, all original Imperial military C96 for about $700. Just because nobody else bid on it. It happens.

Am believing I got lucky! Will see when it turns up....that C96 is A beauty!

Just picked up a loading tool off eBay, WW1, crown marked for $56.

I have noticed lately that WW1 Luger loading tools have reached some high prices..I can't explain this one for instance but it's not the only one..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WW1-German-L...vip=true&rt=nc

And here is a link to your $56 tool

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Ger...p2047675.l2557

Yep that's the one!....... Look authentic????

It is authentic- it is the most often seen Imperial tool.
Some Imperial tools seem to be so rare that one can find 50 Krieghoff tools before one can find a C/N or C/G with the 4 lobe crown.

Thanks! My luger rig is complete :)

I ll give you $750 without blink of an eye.

Loading tool arrived today and was shocked at how small these things actually are. Suppose should have been expecting this due the size of the pouch in my holster but still a suprise. Still amazed these little things go for we'll over $300!!

Yes, I just received one the other day in the mail and my wife said, "You paid what for that little thing?!?" :)

What was your answer ?

"It's bigger than you diamond ring, which cost more".....

Luckily, her reply was in jest. I collect all kinds of WWII German stuff so she's used to me bringing home things that seem trivial for the money. :nono:

Here we go again. Incredible. Am I missing something here? Or is this type of tool really worth this much??

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251301055371...84.m1438.l2649

I wouldn't use Ebay to determine the "going price" for things like these. Gunbroker prices are probably a little more realistic although I've seen some stuff go very high there as well.

The problem with Ebay (actually one of dozens) is that they don't have a 15-minute rule like many other auction sites have. This creates a bidding frenzy in the last few minutes of the auction which drives prices sky high sometimes. I watched a common set of K98 ammo pouches go to almost $400 within the last few minutes of the auction because two bidders went after each other. As far as I was concerned, both ended up being losers in that auction.

never seems like those bidding wars are on the items I am selling :D

And with tools, just like lugers, each marking can make a huge difference in price.

And, the pictures are long gone, so no idea what markings it has.

Same here! The bidding wars only start the second I bid on something!

I owned 11000 tools but I never find this 4 lobe C / M. But I would have paid "only" $ 200 US.

Smokin'!!!! :eek:

And after you picked yourself up off the floor, you said...? :roflmao:

Wow - that is one FINE example!

Actually, my wife is VERY good about be buying stuff so a Luger Tool is not a big deal. Since we've been married, she's let me buy a 1943 Kübelwagen, a 1944 Schwimmwagen, a 1939 BMW R66 with sidecar, a 1939 Mercedes 170V staff car, countless German uniforms, helmets and pieces of field gear. That doesn't even scratch the surface when we start talking about guns....MP40, MP43, MP44, MG42, MG34, G43, P38's, Lugers. PP's, PPK's, HSc's, Broomhandles, dozens of K98's......and that's just some of the German stuff.....:thumbup:

Crown M proof signifies Navy, right? But according to Klaus' observation--not another in 11,000--then this suggests fake. Then again, evidence of absence is not the same absence of evidence. I'm anxious to hear more... We haven't heard from Ron Wood yet; I'll bet he will have a juicy tidbit for us about this piece.

Crown M proof signifies Navy, right? Not in this case.

Wow - I'm impressed indeed. I'd love to have one - or a 170D. And a KübelWagen too!

Matching tools have one of the acceptance marks we can find on the Luger. The tools are as rare as we can find the acceptance on the receivers. There are not many Lugers or tools with 4 lobes C/M. (I saw several of them but not one for my collection.)