eBay GHE

[Kirk Potter]

Did anyone else catch this? I was thinking about bidding before it finally got pulled. No barrels so who knows what frame size, but it looked on the smaller side to me.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F29 2715102700

[Mills Morrison]

Very interesting. I did not catch it

[Jay Oliver]

I was surprised it was on Ebay as well. The serial# was not in the book. I was trying to decide if it was a 20 or 28...

[Mills Morrison]

Not in the book and no records for a research letter either.

[Rick Riddell]

That's not the first one either, there have been two complete guns sold on that site, how is that possible, not sure if I would want to be on the receiving end when delivered!

[Jeff Davison]

I bid on it. It was removed by the seller as no longer available. I also sent them an email asking them to contact me if eBay removed it. No contact yet.

[Jim DiSpagno]

I contacted the seller and he measured the space between firing pin holes center to center with calipers as 0.99 inches.

[legh higgins]

I contacted the seller and he measured the space between firing pin holes center to center with calipers as 0.99 inches.
so...is it a 000 410?:bigbye:

[Brett Souder]

Now you need to find out the measurement across the bolsters. Could be a OO frame?
-Brett

[Jim DiSpagno]

B/T firing pins at 1 inch is an “0” frame and it could be anything from a 28 ga to a 16 ga

[Bill Murphy]

Rick, you have seen two guns sold on ebay? What was the second one? I bought a gun on ebay.

[Rick Riddell]

one was a PH, VH and the other was a grade 2 top lever. The VH and Top lever were complete guns.

[David Holes]

here is the ph

[Rick Riddell]

there was another one, unless you removed the stock. So how is it possible to receive this gun without going through a FFL?

[Dean Romig]

WOW - a PH with Laminated Steel barrels! There weren’t many of those made. The vast majority of composite barreled PH guns had Twist Steel barrels.

Legh Higgins has one and the research letter shows the order entry “Use cust. barrels.” So apparently the customer provided the barrels from possibly a Grade 1 hammer gun... I know, that’s just speculation but there were a lot of very late 1880’s - early 1890’s of these guns made with Laminated Steel barrels.





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[Brian Dudley]

The sale of any frame bearing a serial number is not allowed on Ebay.
Sale of those items must be completed by an FFL to be legal. Unless it qualifies as an antique. In which case, ebay still doesnt care.

[Mills Morrison]

there was another one, unless you removed the stock. So how is it possible to receive this gun without going through a FFL?

There is a Bob Dylan song that goes something like "in Jersey everything's legal, as long as you don't get caught"

[Bob Roberts]

Ten years or so ago on eBay I bid on and won a Maynard 1882 single shot action (no barrel) and stock complete in nice shape. It had a visible hammer. It had a serial number on the trigger bar but the serial number was not mentioned in the description. What's a Maynard? So go figure...

[Bill Murphy]

My Model 21 cutaway came from ebay. At 1929 or 1930, it is far from an antique. They don't catch them all.

[Eric Estes]

I managed to get two nice 1877 lifters off of ebay a few years ago. At least no laws were violated, just ebay rules. :-)

[Wayne Owens]

I was high bidder at $3,400 on a 10 gauge top lever hammer A grade Parker back in the 90's on EBay when it wasn't against their rules. Too bad I didn't make reserve.:banghead: