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What a nice looking rifle...
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What a nice looking rifle...
Thank you. Do you know if I am correct in everything I wrote? How many were made? Any idea of value?
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I have no idea how many were made. I just am aware that trials rifles didn't fare well as they were usually tested to destruction. The crossbolt in the draws is an interesting addition. Very thick through there too. Someone will be through shortly that can tell you EXACTLY how many and apparently the value is $3,750 USD...
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I have no idea how many were made. I just am aware that trials rifles didn't fare well as they were usually tested to destruction. The crossbolt in the draws is an interesting addition. Very thick through there too. Someone will be through shortly that can tell you EXACTLY how many and apparently the value is $3,750 USD...
If the $3,750 is correct with Poulin's 17.5% buyers premium that would be $4,400. That would make me very happy.
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looks like the real thing to me. I have one, also BB-prefixed serial number. Skennerton
's book states, "in all, 50 No.5 rifles were ordered with the triggers mounted or hung from the body, converted from No.5 Mk1 models..." Somewhere here on the forum, someone suggested that number may have been as high as 150, but I cant confirm that. Cant really give you a value either, but I bought mine 7 years ago for 2K. Yours is the only the second one I've seen. Vey nice rifle you picked up!
Forgot to add: when I purchased mine, I used the "buy it now" feature on GB. It had posted for only a few hours when I jumped on it. So had it gone to bidding, who knows how much $$ it would have brought.
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Originally Posted by
smle addict
looks like the real thing to me. I have one, also BB-prefixed serial number.
Skennerton
's book states, "in all, 50 No.5 rifles were ordered with the triggers mounted or hung from the body, converted from No.5 Mk1 models..." Somewhere here on the forum, someone suggested that number may have been as high as 150, but I cant confirm that. Cant really give you a value either, but I bought mine 7 years ago for 2K. Yours is the only the second one I've seen. Vey nice rifle you picked up!
Thank you. Yours wasn't the one in the Poulin auction last year that I linked is it? I figure whatever they got last year is probably the most recent value estimate. Just don't trust 100% that proxibid is correct. I like their estimated value of $5,500-$7,500 lol.
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No, that wasn't mine, I edited my response a few minutes ago. Our messages must've been simultaneous!
Anyways, here are pics of mine.
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Very nice. I was wondering exactly what Skennerton
meant by the hung trigger.
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