Help With Valuation

[cshe091]

I hope I'm posting in the right forum for this. I have been out of the muzzleloading world for quite some time and I'm starting to gather my remaining things up with an eye towards selling them. I'm hoping that I can get opinions on a ball park value on two guns.

1)
62cal (.20ga) Early Virginia Smoothbore
Super Premium ++ curly maple
Brass furniture
Rice 38" D-weight swamped barrel
McCandless Patent Breech
Caywood Full Jug Choked
Chambers Deluxe Siler
Davis double set triggers
Aged steel finish
Builder Matt Avance

I'm ashamed to say that I bought this around 7 years ago from the original owner and never shot it even once.


2)
This is another that I had built by Jackie Brown that I have never fired either. I've had this one around 8 years. It's been so long that I don't remember all the particulars. Other than it's .54 caliber.




I want to try and sell these locally as I'm afraid of getting scammed if I ship them. Any ballparks of what I should be asking would be very much appreciated.

 

[springfield art]

Fine lookers.

 

[RobertIN]

I hope I'm posting in the right forum for this. I have been out of the muzzleloading world for quite some time and I'm starting to gather my remaining things up with an eye towards selling them. I'm hoping that I can get opinions on a ball park value on two guns.

1)
62cal (.20ga) Early Virginia Smoothbore
Super Premium ++ curly maple
Brass furniture
Rice 38" D-weight swamped barrel
McCandless Patent Breech
Caywood Full Jug Choked
Chambers Deluxe Siler
Davis double set triggers
Aged steel finish
Builder Matt Avance

I'm ashamed to say that I bought this around 7 years ago from the original owner and never shot it even once.View attachment 351547View attachment 351548
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2)
This is another that I had built by Jackie Brown that I have never fired either. I've had this one around 8 years. It's been so long that I don't remember all the particulars. Other than it's .54 caliber.

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I want to try and sell these locally as I'm afraid of getting scammed if I ship them. Any ballparks of what I should be asking would be very much appreciated.

Sell online and don't ship until the check or money order clears, or use PayPal Friends and family. Selling locally you'll have to get pretty lucky to find a buyer, even luckier to get what you want out of them. Nice looking sticks.

 

[2 shots]

the tvm is worth more than the brown, i would think.

 

[wiscoaster]

You're going to restrict your selling potential if you only try to sell locally.

Beautiful guns, BTW. I'm no valuation expert but I'm guessing they must be upward of near $2K.

 

[akroguy]

Don't sweat the online...I've used gunbroker to buy and sell several times with no problems at all. You simply do not ship it until the money is in your account. Postal Money Order is very popular and bullet proof.

Both are fine looking guns. Start high. Can always go down.

 

[BoomStick]

Could be around $2K but in person might limit depending on where you are and a buyer local to you. Could also put them on consignment with Clay Smith, TVM, Track of the Wolf or the like and they will handle the transaction and send you the funds when the guns sell.

 

[brushblind]

I hope I'm posting in the right forum for this. I have been out of the muzzleloading world for quite some time and I'm starting to gather my remaining things up with an eye towards selling them. I'm hoping that I can get opinions on a ball park value on two guns.

1)
62cal (.20ga) Early Virginia Smoothbore
Super Premium ++ curly maple
Brass furniture
Rice 38" D-weight swamped barrel
McCandless Patent Breech
Caywood Full Jug Choked
Chambers Deluxe Siler
Davis double set triggers
Aged steel finish
Builder Matt Avance

I'm ashamed to say that I bought this around 7 years ago from the original owner and never shot it even once.View attachment 351547View attachment 351548
View attachment 351549

2)
This is another that I had built by Jackie Brown that I have never fired either. I've had this one around 8 years. It's been so long that I don't remember all the particulars. Other than it's .54 caliber.

View attachment 351551View attachment 351552
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I want to try and sell these locally as I'm afraid of getting scammed if I ship them. Any ballparks of what I should be asking would be very much appreciated.

Unfortunately, if you sell locally, in general, you will be taking a price cut. I do understand about shipping, but you will get more $ with a national audience. For example I recently acquired an unfired TVM fowler just like yours for eleven hundred. The guy was very happy to get that because they are a hard sell around here, he fully understood what a new one would cost, (over two grand) but he also understood the local market. Very nice guns!

 

[brushblind]

Could be around $2K but in person might limit depending on where you are and a buyer local to you. Could also put them on consignment with Clay Smith, TVM, Track of the Wolf or the like and they will handle the transaction and send you the funds when the guns sell.

You still need to ship them?

 

[brushblind]

the tvm is worth more than the brown, i would think.

Yep

 

[brushblind]

Is the J Brown also a smoothbore?

 

[cynthialee]

The first one, $1100-$1700, but find a buyer. It is a nice gun, but you will have to wait a spell to find someone who can fork out its value. I think if you put it out at $1200 it should sell quickly. If you are willing to wait, you can hold out for a bit more. What do you have in it? That certainly will effect your bottom line.

The other one....
I think it is likely worth more than you can get for it, if that makes any sense. I hesitate to make a guess but I think you can get $800.

I advise you to open your horizons to online sales. You will be much more likely to get them sold in a timely fashion for a price you are comfortable letting them go.

Now show some pictures of the bore and in close on the flash pan.

 

[BoomStick]

You still need to ship them?

I think the OP is more concerned with being defrauded of the gun through a distance transaction. In person he gets handed money and hands over a gun, there's some risk in shipping to someone you don't know and never meet.

 

[2 shots]

where is local ??