Telescopes M73B1 on ebay

[gioca]

Jim, what about the bidder that on ebay offered $501 more for the scope with the serial # in the range of 15,xxx rather than that with the serial# 33,xxx?
Maybe that bidder wanted to match a rifle M1903A4 in original conditions with a scope with a "believable" serial number. Once that the rifles are no more original their matching with the scopes is a lot easier!

@Promo
Probably already now you can make more money selling separately the parts rather than as a whole assembly. IMO it is easier to sell the scope without the rifle rather than the rifle without the scope!

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[JGaynor]

Gloca all we can do here is render judgment and educated guesses on values based on the latest auction, gunshow or dealer sale. In my first post i suggested that i would have expect a price of around $1200.~ In the final analysis one guy paid a little less and one guy paid a bit more.
The M73B1's are scare items, the total quantity out there is finite and none have been made in nearly 70 years.
So it's a sellers market. The guy with the later scope probably let it go too low. For some reason lt of people in these gun auctions seem to have some sort of allergy to using a reserve price. non compose mantis.

Regards,
Jim