Bavarian carbine ( help )

[Harlan (Deceased)]

It's funny to me how collectors are in every field, and one item brings more value than another that's almost the same but has one little difference. Sometimes that one little difference isn't even a very much rarer thing but it becomes the one everyone wants.

Just a very few years ago Bavarian carbines seemed to be looked down on almost in the 'Blue Sky' carbine category. I'm talking a very few years ago. Today in my area the Bavarians are bringing some pretty good dollars and they're sought after.

The fickleness of collectors is often difficult to fathom. I think possibly with the Bavarian carbines the reason their popularity surged may be due to the fact they were as a whole better cared for by the Germans than a lot of other imported cabines and also simply by the fact they are 'German'. German artifacts have a certain appeal to many people (even if M1 carbines are about as American as apple pie)

Personally I don't have much interest in them myself. I have a passion for history and the American military. Just the way it is for me and everyone is different. I like WWI and II history especially so I gravitate toward American (anything) from that period - guns, equipment, aircraft, etc, so to me the Bavarian configured carbines are the farthest from being how any carbine would have been - From new through rebuilds if it were still in the hands of the American military.

To each his own, and the Bavarian carbines have a following that seems to be rising all the time. You can never tell about collectibles, but there' no telling where these Bavarians may end up in ten years time. When they're the 'Singer 1911' of the carbine world we'll all be saying "I could have bought truckloads for only $900 each and now you have to mortgage your house to buy one."

I wish I had a milsurp issue 'crystal ball' at my disposal.

[topaz]

They will end up in the collectors hands , Because things are getting pretty thin out there. Some times I think we are at the bottom of the barrel. A lot more collectors them carbines. It seems like it hotter than a match,and being slim pickins any carbine is going to look good