MINT 1903-A3 Springfield question

[Sunray]

"...the term "mint"..." Yeah. It means unfired and exactly as it came out of the factory. We had some Portuguese K98's still in the grease with the matching bayonet, in the shop, years ago. Those were mint. Not enough pictures of this '03A3 to tell.
The zinc based Parkerizing on the bolt is screaming at me. According to the guys at the CMP forum, the Greek returns were manganese based Parkerized and therefore black in colour. And originals were grey. But only the receivers and barrels.
Anyway, that doesn't help jsanford29. Gunbroker is mostly populated by dealers who think they're going to get rich. It'll give you an idea, but you'd be better to talk to iCollector, Joe Salter or the like. They deal exclusively in high end stuff.
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[rcathey]

Gunbroker is mostly populated by dealers who think they're going to get rich. It'll give you an idea, but you'd be better to talk to iCollector, Joe Salter or the like.

If the point of this statement is that GunBroker prices are overpriced and Joe Salter et al. represent market price...I must be looking at a different GunBroker and Joe Salter