What's it worth?

[Edward Tinker]

RK (haven't "chatted" with you for a long while!);

From what I see on gunboards, here and elsewhere, prices seem to be;

1. Highest for rare guns, ones you and I can't afford.
2. Then WW2, nazi era guns
3. Then WW1 era guns, with DWM's worth a bit more than erfurts
4. Police worth a bit more than other Weimar guns (the average joe calls them 1920's)
5. Weimar guns
6. "Low-End" collectables, i.e. ones that are not in the best of shape, but you feel bad parting them out
7. Shooters, ones that idiots screwed up, have bad pits, have been reblued
8. Not necessarilly less in value, I would say that Thor's and other restored guns sell between 3 and 4, but it is all in the eye of the beholder, Big Norm has regaled me with a story or two of buyers at auction who passed up a nice gun for a "pretty" one, even tho it had been reblued.

Ed