Posted: 8/8/2012 12:40:08 PM EDT
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anyone know value of this gun.. Original finish..... GREAT SHAPE..
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Due to the skyrocketing prices for all Colt revolvers, it's hard to assign a valid, current price.
The Blue Book will be low because of publishing lead time and those skyrocketing prices. The Blue book bases values on the percentage of original finish. Assuming your Colt is in 90% original finish value would be north of $2,000. |
| Hate to question Colt, but I had a gun exactly like that once, and that cylinder release is the old style, indicating pre-1905. Check to see if it has a hammer block. If not it is definitely pre-1905. Pre-1905 is worth a lot more money. Care to share first part of the serial number? I can look up year of manufacture. |
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Had Murphy's in Tucson look he said about 1100. Quoted:
We see them around here in gunshops and at gunshows for between 500 and 800 bucks, depending on condition. Collector guns are down right now. Everyone wants black guns or snubbies or some other "business" pistol. The collector market will come back. I've seen lesser guns go for twice what Murphy's told you. Unless you really need the cash, hang on to it for a while. Selling it now would be like selling stocks after the market tanks and before it recovers. I've bought a couple of older Colts recently just because the prices were so low. |
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Nice commercial New Service.
I wouldn't take less than 1100. I have the same era (Commercial, 1920 mfg., 5 1/2" barrel, .45 Colt) New Service as yours. It shoots very well indeed. I shot it this weekend, in fact. You buying or selling? Keeping (according to a few posts down). 
Get a mold for the beast and load her up! I have two New Services. How did she come into your collection? |
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Looks like hammer block.. Quoted:
Hate to question Colt, but I had a gun exactly like that once, and that cylinder release is the old style, indicating pre-1905. Check to see if it has a hammer block. If not it is definitely pre-1905. Pre-1905 is worth a lot more money. Care to share first part of the serial number? I can look up year of manufacture. |
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Keeping for now... traded a guy a rock river 223 and gave him 200... I have 2 colt ar's and I figured this gun worth tad more and harder to come by.. Quoted:
Nice commercial New Service. I wouldn't take less than 1100. I have the same era (Commercial, 1920 mfg., 5 1/2" barrel, .45 Colt) New Service as yours. It shoots very well indeed. I shot it this weekend, in fact. You buying or selling? Keeping (according to a few posts down).
Get a mold for the beast and load her up! I have two New Services. How did she come into your collection? |
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Keeping for now... traded a guy a rock river 223 and gave him 200... I have 2 colt ar's and I figured this gun worth tad more and harder to come by.. Quoted:
Nice commercial New Service. I wouldn't take less than 1100. I have the same era (Commercial, 1920 mfg., 5 1/2" barrel, .45 Colt) New Service as yours. It shoots very well indeed. I shot it this weekend, in fact. You buying or selling? Keeping (according to a few posts down).
Get a mold for the beast and load her up! I have two New Services. How did she come into your collection? You got a peach. New Services are hell for stout. Mild "cowboy" loads in .44/40 won't stress the gun at all. Try them on steel plates. They will blow over the plates with a satisfying "plonk". If you have big hands consider a grip adapter. Numrich Arms still has Pachmayr adapters available for the New Service. I bought a pair of them and they were NOS. Probably dated back to the 1950s, in fact. I prefer double action Colts but it is amazing if you consider how expensive an SAA chambered in .44/40 would be today if they were both made in 1920. The SAA would be considered "first generation" and would go for big bucks. The New Service is appreciating but no where near what an SAA in good shape costs. Consider a factory letter on your New Service. It costs some $$ but it might be worth it. |
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Looks like hammer block.. Quoted:
Hate to question Colt, but I had a gun exactly like that once, and that cylinder release is the old style, indicating pre-1905. Check to see if it has a hammer block. If not it is definitely pre-1905. Pre-1905 is worth a lot more money. Care to share first part of the serial number? I can look up year of manufacture. That flat cylinder release was switched over some time in the 1920s. It went to a rounded "button" shape. Other subtle changes occurred at that time included reshaping the rear sight notch to provide a better sight picture. Colt also did a lot of parts cleanup throughout the New Service production. Some clean up guns have the older flat style cylinder latch well into the rounded latch period of time. 1920 was a lean time for a lot of gunmakers considering how many surplus firearms there were from WWI on the market. |