One of a kind-like new Winchester

[gtodan]

Stupid price, but stupid times we live in.

[RCS]

Just as stupid as paying 85K for number 7 M1 rifle

[Roadkingtrax]

Supports the CMP mission, every dollar counts. Maybe it will get more M1s to shooters for the price paid. Many forget what the M1s are for.

[RCS]

buying serial number 7 for 85K does not support the CMP

[Bob Seijas]

At an OGCA show in the 1980's a guy had a T3E2 .276 Garand on display, I was wild to buy it and asked how much. He said it wasn't for sale. I wouldn't let it go and said everything is for sale at the right price. He said, "Not this one." I persisted, he got angry, leaned across the table and snapped, "$10,000!" That was as crazy as the 39K Winchester and ended the conversation. So how crazy did it turn out to be?

[Neal Myers]

Where could it have come from? Excess from the Armed Services Museum System?

Neal

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Hope not to far off topic. Just renewed my GCA membership and ordered the DVD. I had a chance to watch it last night. Several segments with Mr. Seijas.Very well done.

[Seaspriter]

final price 39,001.00

That is a truly amazing price. For the purist who wants a gun untouched right from the womb, I suppose it is a sought after virgin goddess. As I've commented about the unwrapped Enfield Mk2 guns:

-- Pristine and untouched on the battlefield, to be enshrined on a pedestal and adored from afar
-- the mythical Virgin Princess encased by the protective shield of her unchallengeable beauty
-- the distant Venus star to be worshipped in the waning moments of her glory,
-- so real but so far
-- to be adored and displayed with pride, but never loved and cherished;
--for she has never provided protection to a weary and desolate soldier whose life was in imminent danger.
-- forever protected, preserved, and enslaved by purity;
-- so graceful but sadly never to be wrapped in the robes of glory, unblemished by tears of pain or the sting of battle,
-- for she will never experience the agony and ecstasy of war;
-- forlorn in perpetuity for she will never be exhilarated by the blast of powder from within her loins;
-- nor shall she rise to the pulsing beat of being loaded then expelling her spent shells and thunderously recharged again and again;
-- nor shall pound the marching cadence rhythmically perched on a soldier’s shoulder in beat with his comrades,
-- nor feel the joy rippling through her body after a true marksman with an eagle's aim squeezes her trigger ever so gently yet so firmly;
-- nor sense the safety and security her sisters brought to the lonely stalwart soldier who, shaking in anticipation of being attacked, embraced her dearly in his arms as she protected his life, his honor, and our future freedom; `
-- nor ever the warm protective touch of a restoration gunsmith’s healing hands like a physician caressing her skin and bringing her inner functions back to wholesomeness.
-- .... the sad fate of the Virgin Goddess -- alone, an object of attention, but never loved for the lives she never saved nor the freedom she never protected.

[Bob Seijas]

Wow, might have been Kipling.

[Charlie303]

As far as I can see, the first sale fell through, so a second chance, for someone.

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Nice looking M1, but the lack of provenance would make me tread carefully.