can anybody help me value this gun Serial # 11930

[mark schoning]

It has rawhide on the stock with a marshals badge place on it with brass brad nails Marshals initials IT also has beads hanging like indian beads. what is it worth or what should I give for a piece like this? serial #11930

[Dean Romig]

We need lots of high quality pictures to even begin to comment on your gun.

[David Holes]

Without any pictures to help determine its value, my guess is 200.00--- 450.00.

[mark schoning]

Thanks I will try a get some pics but the guy selling lives 40 miles away and is not good with a camera.

[edgarspencer]

You've seen it, we haven't, so my automatic mental image is of a gun that's been embellished to one persons idea of what an antique should look like, and since we've seen so many hack jobs, the mental image ain't pretty. It is equally likely it could be historically important, so give us more to go on than our past experience of messed up guns.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Marshals badge and the rest are likely recent additions and would add no value to the gun.

DLH

[Bill Murphy]

If you can't get a picture of the gun, how about a picture of the beads? We haven't seen that before.

[Rick Losey]

i am wondering if this was something tricked out for cowboy action shooting

[John Dallas]

I wonder if the "Marshall's Badge" is the initial plate in the wrist?

[Rick Losey]

I wonder if the "Marshall's Badge" is the initial plate in the wrist?

yes- i figured the same

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I've seen them with fake police badges nailed to the stock, with the beads and all I just assumed.....

DLH

[mark schoning]

It's on the side made of brass the raw hide is stitched with rawhide thread it all looks old not modern I trying to get pics will see. I realy appreciate your help on this I love the gun dant want to pay to much he first said $2000.00 I'm thinking $500 max after all of your great input

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Yeah, that's where I figured this was headed. If the add on's are real they'd be the first I've ever seen and I've seen several done up this way. A friend has an old sawed off single shot muzzle loader that's done up in a very similar way.

DLH