Re: Nice looking artillery rig on AA
At $2100 and 3+ days remaining, I am sure that the price will go up. But lets look at what is selling first.
All the straps (shoulder, holster flap and holding iron cup) are in poor shape. The shoulder straps are VERY suspicious to me.
The cleaning rod is pretty long so it may be an original rod. Its impossible to tell an original from a repro. Take down tools are very common ($20 or so).
The holster may not look so bad except for the strap.
The pictures of the gun are not the best. A 1917 is a pretty common year. But the gun looks like it has honest wear on it. Non adjustible front sight (adjustible front sight is a turnon for me). The grips look good from what I can see (no chip at the safety). Wear on the grips are hard to determine. Would like some pictures of the gun and the magazines of the serial numbers, proofs and so forth. The guy did not do a very good job of describing the gun. An estimate of the bluing, bore, pitting, rust etc would have been helpful.
Stock may be honest, but I would like to see the numbers on the iron and the proof mark on the wood. None of that crap about it being a commercial and no proof mark.
But, as I mentioned earlier, there is still time and I am sure that the price will go up.
Big Norm
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