Shanxi .45 Broomhandle

[Sergio Natali]

Originally Posted by alvin

"ballpark" value is $1200 - $1500.

But I did see people, including people with fine C96 collection, paying $4000-$5000 on these. I am not sure what's in their mind. These are new Shansei exported in 1980s. None of them (that I have met) works in range.
If you can make it work, say, you can shoot 10 rounds out without any problem, please post a youtube.com video. You fill a blank in this domain.

"what's in their mind"? I think they're probably sure to get an original one, as it happened to me some years ago when I paid the equivalent of about 3500 bucks for one of them.
Why? Well very simple, it was my fault, I stupidly jumped at it when a renown gunshop-owner & collector proposed it to me as a purchase describing it as an original 1920 Shansei used by the river Shansei Police, one of the few survived ...
More than two years later I discovered that it was only a copy (however very nice) made in 1980s so I took it back to him and traded it for something else thank God without loosing any money. I was very lucky considered also the money involved simply because I dealt with a honest seller.
I post a picture of the gun.