mauser broomhandle help

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My buddy dug out another milsurp from his collection and asked me whats its worth........Im clueless, hopefully someone can help, its a mauser broomhandle in 7.63x25 waffenfabrik mauser, looks all matching, any ideas its worth? Bore looks good and sharp

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hunterhenderson said:
My buddy dug out another milsurp from his collection and asked me whats its worth........Im clueless, hopefully someone can help, its a mauser broomhandle in 7.63x25 waffenfabrik mauser, looks all matching, any ideas its worth? Bore looks good and sharp

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By the looks of the pricing that I have seen for these things over the years and by no means am I anything close to being some manner of an expert at all, but I have seen pricing for these from $7,000 to about 15,000.. and that one looks like it's in the best shape of any of them that I've ever seen before. It will be interesting to see if there is an expert on this subject that pipes up but I'm thinking your friend has a very valuable version of this historic firearm
 
Just curious but were these guns parkerized? Maybe it's just the pics but this one looks parkerized and i thought most of these old guns were nicely blued.
 
Blueing doesn't seem to be original unfortunately. There are some on the EE right now and are from 1800 to 4500. They don't run higher unless they have a stock and are in good condition in original bluing.
That one looks to be in good condition other than the bluing.
 
The first time that caught my eye in the description was it has a good bore! The Chinese imports over the past 25-30 yrs have horrid bores. So you're in good shape from the outset. The grips look good, and don't appear to be big surface pits. Assuming the numbers are matching, you've got a lot of negotiating room!

I wouldn't trust the interwebs for valuable advice given for free. Send your pictures to one of the bigger Canadian auction houses - ??? in Red Deer or Switzer's in Bancroft. You may be surprised.
 
Light Infantry said:
"Proper" ones are about 2500-3100.
If refinished, south of 2000.
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Good info here. Prices over those ranges relate to serious rarities like 9mm export, complete rigs, antiques etc.

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The first time that caught my eye in the description was it has a good bore! The Chinese imports over the past 25-30 yrs have horrid bores. So you're in good shape from the outset. The grips look good, and don't appear to be big surface pits. Assuming the numbers are matching, you've got a lot of negotiating room!

I wouldn't trust the interwebs for valuable advice given for free. Send your pictures to one of the bigger Canadian auction houses - ??? in Red Deer or Switzer's in Bancroft. You may be surprised.
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I wouldn't trust those auction houses to identify a pig wearing a wig let alone a firearm. Look at their past lot descriptions and tell me they know what they're doing when it comes to obscure firearms or those that have most of their value determined by minute details.

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I think he is wanting as close to $5000 as he can get
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I wish him luck, there's a sucker born every minute.
 
Big ring , early production …before 1914 .

Condition of the barrel? Rifling?

Original finish ?

Need to see if inside parts is matching Numbers, this kind of jewel can be a pure junk or priceless.

Goodluck if enable to be pre 1898, RCMP don’t want to keep out of registry.

Try to sell at USA , actually with Trudeau, can be destroy un the next years
 
That's not the first very lightly bead blasted and refinished Broomhandle I've seen, but it's the first one I've seen with Bakelite grips.

That would lead me to believe it's a commercial variant and likely had a holster/stock with it at one time.

Nice pistol, but definitely not worth anywhere near $5k IMHO.

If the bore is excellent, $1500-$2000 if all of the parts have matching numbers. Less than $1500 if the bore is rough or the numbers aren't matching.
 
I traded an H&R Garand with correct parts to a friend for his 1930 Broomhandle in similar condition. I still have it, so I'm guessing they are valued around the same at $2-2.5K

Edit: Now that I'm looking at the pictures, it looks like it was just de-greased and then parkerized? The sight leaf, bolt and extractor should not look like that. So, revised and unless its an antique, I'd say more like $1,500on a good day.
 
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It's a refinished large ring Mauser C96, the value is around $1700-$2500 right now. Original C96 has polished bluing and some heat bluing on small parts, plus the bolt the carrier and the hammer were left in the white with no finish at all.
 
I seen one sold at Switzers ( or wards) last sale, but never really looked at it. Don't think it brought much
$5k? not from what I can see.
The grips look wrong to me?
 
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