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Posted: 2/15/2007 11:02:12 AM EDT
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Hey everyone, Please check this link out and tell me what your feelings are. www.auctionarms.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=7866636 Thanks for any input. Scott |
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Color match is terrible. I've seen several under 5k and my opinion is that they were all perfect when they left the factory. The mismatched colors didn't frequently occur until the late 70s. There are no pics of the expensive parts-BCG, buffer, hammer. Sling should be black. That thing on the barrel may be a barrel protector for a bipod. I know where sn# 46xx is right now for $2000 and supposed to be 98+% 48xx sold recently for $1750 and it was 98%+ 7xx sold for $2000 and was 95%+ 2xxx lower sold on GB for $600  13xx sold on GB for $1200 ETA: buffer tube looks purplish and shiney to me. Also no divot in rear sight screw Is that front sight cast? #7xx wasn't |
How do you know its not original? And would have came with a regular charging handle. |
My bad, I was guessing that Colt wouldn't have been that much of a shade mismatch. Wasn't the small charging handle on the first models? |
The extreme mismatch in color is not proof the upper is not matching to the lower. It is a clue, but it is not proof. The rear sight screw with the dimple, I don't really know what to say about that. It was being dropped during the time period this gun was being made. The FSB is cast which would be correct. |
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I think the upper has been changed but I may be wrong. If the bcg, buffer , buffer tube, hammer are all original it may be worth $2000-$2500 given my doubts about the upper. If these parts are missing I'd go no higher than $1500. I have NEVER seen an early BCG or hammer for sale and people are trying to get $150 for buffers. |
I don't think used edgewater buffers are worth $150 either. |
Neither do I! That's why I don't have one yet I guess. I turned down a used, stained one for $50
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If the upper ain't original then where did he come up with the new old school port door and old time barrel with cast FSB? Find that real hard to belive. Not to mention the like new 1960's no forge code upper SP1 receiver in the proper brown color. Talking about some rare parts, and the odds they just all happened to end up on a 1964 SP1 lower? |
I have an early port door, same barrel, earliest gas tube, no hole handguards, and a no hole buttstock screw that I bought off a guy at a gunshow that had them on a Doublestar lower. Here is 48xx  |
Can't keep them all.
Yeah, and you have a XM177/E1 barrel. An advance collector and a guy wanting $5,000 for an SP1 are two different things. |
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The parts I listed above were used to build a gun that a guy had on a rack at the gunshow when I spotted them. HK45shooter scored a 2xxx lower with the original buffer and tube and already had an early upper that will be correct for it. I could be wrong about upper originality but I would still require pics of the impossible to find internals before I'd lay out $2k + for it. |
I agree |
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I like this one Nice color match  Why the flood of early SP1s all of a sudden? This makes at least 4 in the last week 
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