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Blue Book Price Check
Looking at a nice repro 28ga 2 bbl set (26”&28”). SST, Case Colors redone by Turnbull.
What range are these going for? Thanks. |
Use Guns International as a tool .
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GI will tell you what sellers are "asking". Sale prices are unknown. Most of the 88 Repros listed have been there for months. I will guess the gun you mention would sell between $5500 and $6000 if it is really nice but redone.
Bob Jurewicz |
IMO the blue book is out of date with the prices they have listed for repro's. The market has changed & the BB hasn't caught up with those changes.
Like the others have said GI is a good source for seeing asking prices. I feel watching the trends on gun broker to be of help as well. At least with GB you can track several guns for sale over a given time span and then see the actual price they sell for. IMO it's more useful for seeing current market values & trends. |
Does the blue book have any bearing on an altered gun, at all?
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Sounds like the same gun that sold on here for $6,000.00 two weeks ago.
-Brett |
I believe the wood has quite a bit of impact on final selling price - many PRs have great wood, but there are also more pedestrian versions.
DT guns bring a premium. A beavertail on a 28 gauge is not nearly as common as the splinter and will sometimes bring a premium. |
Your question could address a gun that was heavily used or abused in its past life, or with other problems, which would make all estimates obsolete. Study all "sold guns" on auction sites, ignoring all "guns for sale". Many unusual catalog versions and aftermarket diversions of Repros sell for much more than common catalog iterations. Prices range from $2500 to $10000 for catalog versions. A Turnbull metal refinish would only add $1000 to $2000 to a catalog gun, a minor addition.
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Jay, please give us your answer to the question. We have very little experience with Turnbull refinished Repros. I feel that some buyers prefer a mint original Repro to a Turnbull refinish. Some buyers prefer the Turnbull gun.
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Put me in the original and unaltered category. However, I must confess, this one is awful nice..
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(no judgment here or opining on someone else's choices w/their own property - just playing devil's advocate, and curious to hear opinions) |
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Now I have my answer to my original statement. Jay doesn't think that aftermarket changes to a Repro will increase the value of the gun. I have to refresh my memory, but I think that's what I thought, maybe a small increase in value, but not much. I have the greatest Repros I could ever imagine, other than a .410, and I won't send them anywhere to have them upgraded. I have a 28 gauge, streaked English Walnut, straight grip stock, two barrel set, double triggers, beavertail forend. I also have a 12 gauge, wonderful wood, 28" one barrel set, improved cylinder and modified, straight grip, splinter forend. I would hate to have to duplicate those two guns today. I don't prefer the case colors, but am willing to put up with them rather than paying DT thousands of dollars to improve them. By the way, my 12 gauge came from Scot Cardillo, and I am more than happy with it.
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I'm glad you enjoy and appreciate that one, Bill. It is indeed a wonderful example. The one I posted in the photo above would be an excellent candidate for a DHBP.
To my eye, the pad + spacer looks to be about an inch??, leaving the lop at 13-3/4" once removed. What would a DHBP add back to that? 1/4", 3/8"? |
Bought my 28 gauge 2 barrel set used for $5500 in 2014. Original case w/cover, snap caps, warranty card and oil bottle.
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any restoration work on any gun (repro or original) should not be done for monetary gain. There are very few candidates (ie: high grade/small bore) that the situation of dollars and cents makes any sense.
Yes, you may improve the value of a gun if condition is lacking. But almost never will the cost of work be recouped let alone profited on. People restore, upgrade or embellish their guns because they want to. Period. And in the case of repros, people may want the modern gun with the traditional looks of the original guns that they love. I can see someone paying a premium for bone charcoal case hardening on a Repro if they like the look of it. But not $1000-2000 more for sure. Primarily, people pay for overall condition, configuration and choking when it comes to repros. And of they have sound wood that will not break in 100 shots or less. |
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Here’s another altered (and interesting) Parker Reproduction
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Just a D grade that they did some embellishment to. The “parker” inlayed in gold. They added the Parker Bros name to the side of ghe frame in a banner. None of the other engraving was faithfully updated to C grade. The wrist was altered to C checkering and the forend was converted to full cover checkering. On my 20g DHE i did debate on doing a faithful C upgrade on it, but decided against it. |
Scott, do you know the details on that one with the extra barrel fitted with claw mounts? It it a rifle barrel? Or shotgun for slugs?
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