Anaother "Crown over MGC" Snail Drum Magazine

ithacaartist · 11-28-2018, 05:18 PM

...at auction. The clock is ticking!

https://www.proxibid.com/Firearms-Mi...nCatalog=16155

LU1900 · 11-30-2018, 08:01 PM

Nice toy for 750$ !

ithacaartist · 11-30-2018, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by LU1900

Nice toy for 750$ !

Yes... These are collectible, but I'm surprised by the hammer price. Here's one for much less. https://www.ebay.com/i/123511071683?chn=ps

John Sabato · 12-04-2018, 12:51 PM

I would bet that the buyer thought it was a REAL TM-08 and not a toy reproduction... I feel sorry for whoever it was.

sheepherder · 12-09-2018, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ithacaartist

Yes... These are collectible...

Yes indeed. Model Gun Corporation of Japan made excellent facsimiles of WW II (and other) weapons in the 1960's. I had not seen their 'logo', but it's pretty slick.

Edit: here's a comparison of an MGC MP40 magazine with a real MP40 magazine. MGC had their own waffenamt...

11-28-2018, 05:18 PM	#1
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,282 Thanks: 7,007 Thanked 2,476 Times in 1,319 Posts	Anaother "Crown over MGC" Snail Drum Magazine ...at auction. The clock is ticking! https://www.proxibid.com/Firearms-Mi...nCatalog=16155 __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

11-30-2018, 08:01 PM	#2
LU1900 User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: FRANCE Posts: 900 Thanks: 35 Thanked 461 Times in 193 Posts	Nice toy for 750$ ! __________________ Best regards from France...Patrice https://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2016/03/1...nd-snail-drum/

12-04-2018, 12:51 PM	#4
John Sabato Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,150 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,304 Times in 1,096 Posts	I would bet that the buyer thought it was a REAL TM-08 and not a toy reproduction... I feel sorry for whoever it was. __________________ regards, -John S "...We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL *and are endowed by their Creator* with certain UNALIENABLE* rights, and among these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness..."*