Mitchell Arms Stainless American Eagle
 

I need help with a value of this gun and a potential direction for possibly selling it. I have been checking the auction sites but nothing has come up in the few years I've been watching so I can't establish a benchmark for it's value. It has the box which is worn, the paperwork, hangtag and velvet draw string bag with Mitchel embroidered on it. Any help will be appreciated. Condition is 99% with a few handling marks.
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I sold one about 2 years ago for $600.00. don't see too many of these around anymore. I'm guessing it will be $700-800... maybe

Just out of curiosity, how did this product come about? I remember when these things hit the market, and I recall asking the same question. Did they actually tool up to make Lugers from scratch, or did they come into a set of tooling from some source? There must have been some number of complete Luger factories in existance in the 1940s, pehaps these guys found one for sale?

It does not appear that this product did very well, the fact that they didn't work very well probably didn't help. And the decision to go with stainless steel... well.

H

Flash,
I sent you a pvt mgs

Jim

H, Unfortunately, Aimco attemped to produce their own Luger tooling. In the 45+ years of ORIGINAL po8 manufacture, there were only 3 sets of tooling used: The Original DWM, The German government set from Erfurt and the WW1 era Swiss set, which was modified in 1929. All other manufactures, used one of these sets over the years. TH

Randall Gibson states the krieghoff tooling was newly made when it was found that the erfurt / simson tooling was no longer usable.


so, there were 4 sets of tooling

Tom
Didn't Kreighoff also have a set of tools made ? Bill

Ed
Looks like we posted at the same time Bill

So, where are the toolings sets now? Is any set still intact?

H

I response to the justified coment that this discussion has gone too far off-topic, I have deleted this post and moved it to a new discussion here:

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=17860

Perhaps it will promote its own discussion.

--Dwight

Dwight
Thanks for the great information on the tooling machinery.

Rick, did you feel that the first answer by Glen was incorrect? (1 hour and 3 minutes after he asked the question). Should the thread have been locked at that time since his answer was given, and he never replied back to anyone?


It was 9 days later before the thread was "hi-jacked"...

Rick, and Flash,

Many apologies for my lengthy addition to the digression from the original question.

--Dwight

Rick, I guess I am confused. You think basic courtesy was not observed, and since I thought the question was answered... ?? ;)

Some good information came from the discussion above, and you are stating that Henry's question was not legitimate? This was AFTER Glen (trigger643 answered), so like most questions in life, the subject changed.

I feel that what Henry asked, was to the oringal question, and the subject changed.

I actually think you have a good point, but to make the rest of us sound like buffoons without common courtesy by helping another members question seems a bit much to me?

You do not feel this is true? If so, why?

;) encouraging politeness, well, I sure can't argue with that, or shouldn't, my mamma would whack me in the head :cheers: