Gun shop parts mess

This discussion was started because of another post i made an to make more sense of it for all to see an comment here. these parts were acquired from estate of a old gunsmith along with some firearms. lets here the comments.
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Probably a diamond or two in there.

I'd love to go through all that very carefully.

I can see a Mannlicher 1888 trigger guard, an M1 carbine bolt, a Parker-Hale Lee-Enfield butt and what's probably a fore-end for one, the top half of a Mauser C96 and what's probably a K98 rear sight base.

Maybe if you dumped the parts out of the buckets we could get a better look?

there will be more pictures as i get a chance dump them out an get pictures. Right now i have no room in a 62 x 38 garage. This week end will be first one since Easter that i have not set up at gun show. so i have alot of work to catch up on. Would welcome any one who wants to visit to help. Will even supply the food an beverages :super:

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that amount of parts i think is over 1000 pounds of steel an wood. new an old products. along with a ammo box full of de milled pistols which are bagged an tagged. they will add to my list of gunbroker items for sale. Most of the stocks an barrels are listed there as with actions.

hey guys opened so more stuff up even found a case of cetme bayonets too.
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The Cetme bayonets can go on a WTS some where and I'll bet they go one at a time. The coil springs are invaluable over time.

well Jim any thing is for sale or trade to anyone out there in Milsurp land. I am kinda overwhelmed with all this stuff. An too boot i get another call from seller they found more stuff an junk according to them. here is a picture i missed from before.
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1903 receivers? Well worth looking through those for gold...

most of the receivers are Colombia marked 30 over rear ring. Figurie they are worth about 20 to 30 each

All I can say is: you have your work cut out for you identifying and labeling everything.

Make lots of coffee!

.30 M1919 Browning belt feed lever and SMLE rearsight bracket in photo 1!

I think you will have to devise some type of system to ever sort thru all that. Lable 1st box scope rings.

divide an conqueror is only way to go plus lots of containers :madsmile::madsmile:

In pic 1, I see a sportered foreend for M1917 rifle, a post-war Ithaca M37 butt, and what appears to be a Remington 11-48/Mohawk/Sportsman butt underneath that.

In pic 4 with the oil can, I believe I see a link for a browning Auto 5/Rem M11/Savage 720 variant.

In pic 5, I see an operating bar and foreend collar for an Ithaca M37.

Interested in selling the M37 butt? I might be interested in buying, if not cut down.

The butt on the top of pic #1 is for either the Remington 870 series of shotguns or 760 series of pump action rifles. It'll fit both.

Guys all this stuff is for sale please let me know in a private message what you want an what you will pay or trade. 75% of this stuff will end up at next gun show few weeks as this week end there is none around due to mothers day. thanks mike

You'd almost need to do a pic of each container spread out a bit so guys can see...then the WTB requests will come I should think.

here is pictures of all the wood that is not going to fire place.
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i also have pictures of other side of all these any one interested before i throw them on gunbroker let me know an we can horse trade.

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some of these are new an some have metal hard ware an some i have no clue what they work on.:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Really is a bit of everything...2x Itaca stocks, Stevens Crackshot...870 Remington, Mossberg 4-500 series...Browning Auto 5...mini 14 top wood, when they were wood.

Hi Jim your right little bit of everything even win 101. you should see the mess of bad wood. going to try an save some as knife wood slabs to sell at shows as i do not need wood burner right now.

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Originally Posted by mmppres

i throw them on gunbroker

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Doubt you will get much for any of these on GunBroker, unless they can be identified. In an auction, these are just a pile of "Miscellaneous Parts."
There might be a few real gems in the pile, as a few of the Milsurps experts have identified. Take your time, know what you have, and seek a fair deal.
You might propose that anyone who can identify a piece and wants to buy it gets 50% off fair market value or best offer if two or more want it. This uses the honour system, and I think you can count on Milsurps members to be quite honourable. What's left unidentified might be able to be sorted into some categories, like: shotgun, rifle, carbine, machine gun, revolver, etc to help attract a good buyer.

BTW, in these photos looks it looks like a large proportion are from shotguns -- find a shotgun forum to make your queries for these.

Seaspriter I have made some deals with fellow members here an I am very willing to make deals i do not feel right charging someone who helps me with this wonderful mess full prices.working more on like less than half price on stuff. even willing to trade for almost anything. Just dont trade with wife she gives ammo away for gold rings with shiny red stones.:)

Mmppres, in pic 11 of these most recent pics you have a ringtail-type forearm with grooves cut in it. Could you please pm me a closeup pic of the end of the operating bar (where it would connect to the slide)? And you have a bare operating handle with no wood in pic 12. Same request, please, as well as a pic of the threads on the front o the operating bar?I think I might know what those are, but need to make sure before I shoot you an offer. Thanks.

Sov pictures on way. Here is a box of frames an such. Few are marked colt on barrels. but do not look like they belong to frames.
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Looks like Aladin let you have a supermarket sweep through his cave!

aladin let me sweep the floor in his cave I got lots of stuf in this mess even some non gun stuff. :madsmile:

When we were apprentices, he chief ogre, Harry Weeks had a few trays full of assorted parts for us to identify, including stuff that was totally lost on us and from the distant past, such as BESA, No1 revolver, early Patchett, .303 Browning, Piat........ you know the kind of stuff. He'd want you to use your loaf to identify it within the bounds of reason and a simple explanation. It could have been a fun hour or so. But Harry Weekes wasn't into anything that could bring on a smile or a chuckle.......... So it became a chore with no humourous answers. Just dry classroom work. Eventually I used to teach Physics part time at a school here and tried to make sure that lessons were always light and breezy to make the lesson and learning easy. But these ID lessons were very useful - afterwards in the real world............

I just noticed that some of the parts are in an old Double Diamond box. Now ther's a blast from the past. Iremember the 1970's TV ads for DD beer. Double Diamond, works wonders.:beerchug:

hey guys i tried to go threw the bag of springs they are size from very very small1/16 to about 4 inch lost count at 300 going to sell in one bag any one interested before i place on bun broker
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all the large springs in the one photo are spoken for by one of out Texas members

I'd be keeping most of that coil spring stock until rapture. That's the sort of thing you find use for more than you'd think...unless you never have occasion to do gun repair...

Well I took half of what was there for my own stock pile an thought someone out there could use a deal. If i use one spring a month i will never run out :D

A few years back, a friend of mine decided to have a change of pace and bought a gun shop in a large rural town.

This place had been in business for decades and it appeared that the owner / gunsmith never threw ANYTHING out, or was entirely consistent in organising parts by maker / model, let alone labeling really odd stuff. Some of the parts I found in boxes marked "Winchester" still have me baffled.

I spent several weeks trawling through boxes and trays, identifying a LOT of "easy" stuff like Lee Enfield, Mauser and Winchester parts, but there was, and still is, a bucket of "random stuff" that defied us, despite a fair bit of trawling through the web and a LOT of old books and catalogues.

Every so often, he would put one that had several of us stumped, in a box on the counter, and offer a free cup of freshly-brewed "shop" coffee for its identification. A few customers have had a good mug or two. There must have been a LOT of shotguns of dubious heritage around that district.

The good thing about springs is that, be they flat, "V" or coil, as long as they are not rusty, they can often be "repurposed" to fit something else. Old, "rotten" barrels can be wound in to replace a "good" one on a firearm destined to be a "wall hanger" and so forth.

way i look at it is everything has 2 uses. the original one it was made for an one that you need it to work on at the time. That way everything is always a good deal.

found a few new gems in the mess
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here is link to clips auction there is over 20 parts all new
29 WALTHER CLIP PARTS : Pistol Magazines & Pistol Clips at GunBroker.com

Nice classic S&W. Who made the double?

Warpig it is marked a Varney-Carron at least thats whats marked on it an also in my ffl log :D
VARNEY-CARRON 16 : Side By Side Shotguns at GunBroker.com