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Look What My Wife Bought For 50 Bucks
Horse Plains Drifter
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My wife is a substitute teacher's aide at one of the local schools. A couple of weeks ago she came home and said one other teacher's aide, who happens to be a retired police officer had a 410 double and a 20 ga. single shot he wanted to get rid of.
Well today she was back at that school, and when she saw the fella she said to him "my husband wants to know how much you want for the guns". His reply was "I don't want anything for them, I just want to get rid of them. My wife allowed as to how we had to pay him something for them, so he said "ok, fifty bucks". It seems an elderly lady whose husband had died had just wanted them out of her house so she gave them to him. There was also a 38 pistol in the deal with her, which he wanted to keep, so it's not like he's an anti gunner or anything. He just doesn't have any use for the shotguns.
When my wife got home today she had:
One Monitor 410 Double. All bluing gone, light rusts spots on barrel. Bores just look dirty and should clean up nicely. Wood has the usual dings/handling marks with no cracks.
One NEF 20 ga that looks to be pretty much new. Maybe shot a few times.
A excellent shape vintage canvas/leather/real sheep skin? case that still has a hand written price tag of $25.50 still on it.
One plastic case that is a two handgun case and is lockable if one had the keys. It came from Big 5 spotring goods and has a price tag of $24.99
The plastic case contains: four 25 round boxes of 410 shells. One five round box of 410 slugs. One box of 20 ga shells.
Any ideas on the value of the old 410? I assume it's one of those hardware store specials?
Well today she was back at that school, and when she saw the fella she said to him "my husband wants to know how much you want for the guns". His reply was "I don't want anything for them, I just want to get rid of them. My wife allowed as to how we had to pay him something for them, so he said "ok, fifty bucks". It seems an elderly lady whose husband had died had just wanted them out of her house so she gave them to him. There was also a 38 pistol in the deal with her, which he wanted to keep, so it's not like he's an anti gunner or anything. He just doesn't have any use for the shotguns.
When my wife got home today she had:
One Monitor 410 Double. All bluing gone, light rusts spots on barrel. Bores just look dirty and should clean up nicely. Wood has the usual dings/handling marks with no cracks.
One NEF 20 ga that looks to be pretty much new. Maybe shot a few times.
A excellent shape vintage canvas/leather/real sheep skin? case that still has a hand written price tag of $25.50 still on it.
One plastic case that is a two handgun case and is lockable if one had the keys. It came from Big 5 spotring goods and has a price tag of $24.99
The plastic case contains: four 25 round boxes of 410 shells. One five round box of 410 slugs. One box of 20 ga shells.
Any ideas on the value of the old 410? I assume it's one of those hardware store specials?
Comments
The vast majority were made either by The Cresent Firearms Co. or Stevens. (Believe Cresent eventually was bought by Stevens).
At any rate, .410 doubles in my experiece tend to aquire added interest and value over other vintage utility grade shotguns. IMO bottom end on a working .410 double is likely $300.
Jon
MT357...you've been doing something right...[8D]
I have truly been looked kindly upon, that is for sure. The blessing does not go un-noticed either.
Please contact us if you want to move the 410 , we have a customer that collects those ????
Thanks !!!
d.a.stearns a.k.a. SKEEZIX
Gunsmith / LEO
Athens , Tn.
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