L42A1 current value?

[bigduke6]

Always hard to put a price on something like this, I PM'd Mike as I have a Chest for a L42, I bought sometime back from a fellow member on here, as I was holding on for a similar rifle that was without its chest and scope etc.

In the end the owner didn't want to sell but offered me £1200 for the chest......and I'd offered him £2500 for the rifle.......... at the time a scope and bracket was around £2000 so an expensive way at that time, as a full CES was around the £5000 mark.

Going by a most recent price of a sale of a L42 by a member and dealer on here, full CES (minus the expensive plastic bottle) was £8500 IIRC, I would say the rifle as it is would be around £3000-£3500 tops, its lost its shine as I would say the woodwork has been replaced outside the Armourer shop, no scope and no sign of what number scope was fitted, to find a correct scope and mount would be like trying to prize blood out of a stone, as the owner is probably looking for the correct rifle for it or would only let it go to the correct rifle, then its the chest to acquire,

Chest approx £1000 +, scope and mount £2500- £3000.

Ideal for anyone who has the bits above...... ( so I'd be interested)

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[Mikehaspey]

Always hard to put a price on something like this, I PM'd Mike as I have a Chest for a L42, I bought sometime back from a fellow member on here, as I was holding on for a similar rifle that was without its chest and scope etc.

In the end the owner didn't want to sell but offered me £1200 for the chest......and I'd offered him £2500 for the rifle.......... at the time a scope and bracket was around £2000 so an expensive way at that time, as a full CES was around the £5000 mark.

Going by a most recent price of a sale of a L42 by a member and dealer on here, full CES (minus the expensive plastic bottle) was £8500 IIRC, I would say the rifle as it is would be around £3000-£3500 tops, its lost its shine as I would say the woodwork has been replaced outside the Armourer shop, no scope and no sign of what number scope was fitted, to find a correct scope and mount would be like trying to prize blood out of a stone, as the owner is probably looking for the correct rifle for it or would only let it go to the correct rifle, then its the chest to acquire,

Chest approx £1000 +, scope and mount £2500- £3000.

Ideal for anyone who has the bits above...... ( so I'd be interested)

Highwood Classics have a non complete CES up at £8750.

You’re looking at £2500 for correct scope & mount (one sold on eBay last week)
£1k for an original transit case, the only other bits in that particular setup are the scope tin and sling, so you’re looking about £400 worth, so let’s say £4K total.

That means they’re putting a value of £4750 on the rifle alone... but of course it does have the luxury of it having its correct scope & mount known, whereas mine doesn’t.

Anyone else have any ideas on the value of rifle alone?
Thanks