Ugh! How bad is it out there?
 

A friend has a nice New Ithaca Double shotgun with condition, 16 ga, Grade 2 IIRC.

Sounds nice, except it appears value on these are toast, although I can’t figure out precisely how bad.

What would you pay for this?

Seems to me that value on all doubles has tanked recently. Side by sides are hard to sell and 12 ga guns are in a coma.
Bob Jurewicz

Pics would help establish what someone would pay.

It is true that NID's, even with condition do not get the love that Parker or Fox guns do, I think that they do sell for a reasonable price. Especially sub gauges like the one you describe. It may take a little longer to sell though.

I recall some engraving and so I guessed the grade. It’s only a field grade, and I generally avoid shotguns with recoil pads. 2 3/4” chambers, single trigger, but appears not to be factory work. Condition very good. 1939 production. What would you say for this?

And more photographs…

And still more photographs…

What make is the single trigger? And running a cleaning patch through those bores will make the gun more attractive.

Plusses: 16 ga
Minuses (to me): SST, recoil pad
Deal maker or breaker: Fit and chokes.

This is a shooter and has no particular collectors interest. If it fit me, was choked modified and full, and I needed or wanted another pheasant gun, I would bite at $600. JMHO.

That is Ithaca's Harry Howland designed non-selective single trigger. A minus selling point as far as I'm concerned. The non-selective single trigger was introduced in the second 1932 Ithaca Gun Co. catalog, the same one that introduced the Magnum-10 --

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While it was $6.50 on an NID, it was $4.60 on a Lefever Nitro Special and $3.50 on a Western Arms Long Range.