ROCK-OLA CARBINE, CARBINE CLUB REGISTERED-100% : Curios & Relics at GunBroker.com
Should the barrel be dated?
Tia,
Charlie-painter777
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ROCK-OLA CARBINE, CARBINE CLUB REGISTERED-100% : Curios & Relics at GunBroker.com
Should the barrel be dated?
Tia,
Charlie-painter777
Every Rock-Ola barrel I've seen was undated
Picture 10 shows a barrel date looks like 1-43
Thank You, I'll have to look closerQuote:
Originally Posted by Ablationman
It might just be me but if I was going to sell a carbine such as this, I would take a detailed and quality set of photographs. These photographs are horrible at best. The old story of "it's not my camera", "my wife has the good camera", "my dog ate my camera" are all just a load of malarkey. Poor quality photographs are an easy way to hide details you don't want seen. Even cell phones take better pictures than these. :banghead: :bitch:
He is a curator at the:
"Museum Of The Pacific"
Tom McLeod (curator)
306 Forest Lake Drive
Texarkana, TX 75503-1940
Museum of the Pacific - United States
So do you think he is selling museum pieces? Like excess stuff? Maybe to help fund the museum? Curator huh? Now I think even less the photographs. He should now better. There are some interesting pieces he has for sure :)
"Registered" has no meaning in relation to the Carbine Club. The owner may have sent in a data sheet, just like many thousands of others. It proves nothing more than that he can lick a stamp, yet he says it at least twice (my eyes gave up on the acre of all caps). I must be special since I'm "registered" in the phone book.
Well it ended unsold.
Maybe his museum does need funds. It says non profit.
Asked and received a good photo of the barrel date.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo..._TUBE_BA-1.jpg
If this guy is being up front, he obviously knows what buyers look for. On an expensive rare piece like this, he would have very good photos of the areas people are concerned with. We don't need a photo of a Rockola magazine or handguard! Too bad because it would probably sell itself regardless of rebuild issues, but if it has been welded or really buggered up, it would not. One of these is probably a $2500 item regardless, right?
Dave,
If it is original, I think his reserve of $3550 is in the ballpark.
I'm still searching for any info on the unmarked hammer verses a KR marked. A few other items too. I should try and go through old CC newsletters. He mentions it, maybe it was shown or discussed in an article.
I would bet that a lot of possibilities are in the mix since Rockola had so much trouble getting going. I have a Kal Machine hammer (KR) in my NPM but it is the late type. Only hammer swaps in WB were with Underwood in 44, those would be too late. You would have to get this carbine in hand to make any decisions at that price.