What do you think these suckers are worth?
Afghan bring backs.
Afghan bring backs.
SOOOO it looks like I will be aquiring a few antiques this weekend. I'm trading a m1 garand for the antiques and 10 enblocks for a large sure fire thats been in country.
What do you think these suckers are worth?
What do you think these suckers are worth?
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Jakeiscrazy
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Re: Afghan bring backs.
Sweet! I have no idea what they're worth though.
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Re: Afghan bring backs.
Well, I have $500 in the garand....
I assume the pistols are worth $100 each and the rifle is $250 or so. probably use them for trade bait.
I assume the pistols are worth $100 each and the rifle is $250 or so. probably use them for trade bait.
Re: Afghan bring backs.
Live near Roanoke by any chance?Peel2Seal wrote:Well, I have $500 in the garand....
I assume the pistols are worth $100 each and the rifle is $250 or so. probably use them for trade bait.
Re: Afghan bring backs.
kinda... why do you ask?
Re: Afghan bring backs.
Peel2Seal wrote:kinda... why do you ask?
Might be interested in those pistols, but I'd have to go over them first in person. Do they fire? Or if you haven't tried, does the flintlock (looks to be what they are) mechanism work?
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I'll have them friday, there down at bragg right now. One of the flint lock pistol works, the other does not... The rifle works and the pepper box snaps but you have to rotate the barrel by hand, by what I have read they were made that way, to be manually rotated.. I will probably try and fire one, nothing harsh 10-15g of FF and a wad or loose fitting cork.
By what I am hearing there is no filler around the inlay or under the barrel what normally indicates they were made to sell to unsuspecting buyers as war trophies. Another indication that they may be old is the fact that the barrels are not made from crudly cast pot metal BUT right now I am assuming they are all modern fakes until I get them in my hand.
The soldier who brought them back was a ODA soldier, letters are coming with them. I'm not sure where the pepper box came from but the others were gifts from elders by what I hear, none were "paid for".
I believe the pepper box to be 100% legit, as in "old" because all the newly produced ones use brazed barrels, its barrel by what I hear is solid, not multiple barrels sodered togeather.
I really dont know what they are going to sell for, its a gamble. At $100 for each of the 3 pistols and $250 for the rifle I am breaking even assuming worse case that they are modern fakes instead of antique "copies"
Although I am going to try to sell them for more than that especially if they are old khyber guns. If they turn out to be "real" with letters I will proably be asking $650 for the twin flint lock pistols, $500 for the pepper box and $700 for the rifle. If they are fakes the $100-$250 seems fair.
By what I am hearing there is no filler around the inlay or under the barrel what normally indicates they were made to sell to unsuspecting buyers as war trophies. Another indication that they may be old is the fact that the barrels are not made from crudly cast pot metal BUT right now I am assuming they are all modern fakes until I get them in my hand.
The soldier who brought them back was a ODA soldier, letters are coming with them. I'm not sure where the pepper box came from but the others were gifts from elders by what I hear, none were "paid for".
I believe the pepper box to be 100% legit, as in "old" because all the newly produced ones use brazed barrels, its barrel by what I hear is solid, not multiple barrels sodered togeather.
I really dont know what they are going to sell for, its a gamble. At $100 for each of the 3 pistols and $250 for the rifle I am breaking even assuming worse case that they are modern fakes instead of antique "copies"
Although I am going to try to sell them for more than that especially if they are old khyber guns. If they turn out to be "real" with letters I will proably be asking $650 for the twin flint lock pistols, $500 for the pepper box and $700 for the rifle. If they are fakes the $100-$250 seems fair.
Re: Afghan bring backs.
Ya know, on second thought I would just be shooting my self in the foot with this deal, to many unknowns and to much of a chance to end up with a pile of junk that will take forever to get rid of.
I'm going to trade a beat up glock for the surefire and the enfield pepperbox, I only want it to "have" so I probably wont sell it.
I'll be picking them up sunday turns out, I'll post pics then.
I'm going to trade a beat up glock for the surefire and the enfield pepperbox, I only want it to "have" so I probably wont sell it.
I'll be picking them up sunday turns out, I'll post pics then.
Re: Afghan bring backs.
Hey Kreutz, if you're looking for antiques I've got a couple I'm selling. But they're not bazaar-grade crap so the prices are not teh cheap.
Re: Afghan bring backs.
Diomed wrote:Hey Kreutz, if you're looking for antiques I've got a couple I'm selling. But they're not bazaar-grade crap so the prices are not teh cheap.
Torn.....so torn......I like bazaar grade crap lol. They often enough look just as nice on the mantle! With the holidays approaching and a new baby on the way, gonna have to pass.
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gunderwood
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Re: Afghan bring backs.
What are you selling? PM if you prefer.Diomed wrote:Hey Kreutz, if you're looking for antiques I've got a couple I'm selling. But they're not bazaar-grade crap so the prices are not teh cheap.
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PM'd!gunderwood wrote:What are you selling? PM if you prefer.
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I ended up giving a mossberg shotgun for a m691 surefire that was in country and two of the pistols. 
Posted them on GB. The odd thing is the flent lock appears to have been fired! theres some black powder residue in the barrel and on the pan. But yeah, the general consensus is that there newer crap, even the enfield that I thought was legit looks to be a new copy. I just listed them to try to fund a FA sten I want.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =258607107
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =258607810
The hkyber pass enfield he had was alot better quality than this stuff. Still looks way cool and the fact that it was hand made in afghanistan is kinda cool.
Posted them on GB. The odd thing is the flent lock appears to have been fired! theres some black powder residue in the barrel and on the pan. But yeah, the general consensus is that there newer crap, even the enfield that I thought was legit looks to be a new copy. I just listed them to try to fund a FA sten I want.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =258607107
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =258607810
The hkyber pass enfield he had was alot better quality than this stuff. Still looks way cool and the fact that it was hand made in afghanistan is kinda cool.
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The flint lock sold, that was fast.