1961 Hi Power value? * more pics added *

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This is a 1961 FN Hi Power, all parts matching with a spare
NOS barrel with the crossed flags logo and all the parts you see here.
I don't know the condition of the interior bluing but the
exterior is near mint with an excellent condition barrel in use.

Not my pistol, just wondered about the value of it and all parts.
I'm guessing over a grand, easy. Thanks, zip.
 
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The pistol alone is probably worth $800 +/- if it is original and not refinished (hard to tell in your pics), but do the gun a favor - ditch the fugly pachs and put the original grips back on (are they orange on the back side?)
The parts sound, and look, like Inglis parts which have good value as well - I see an easy $3-400 there.

The early FN High Powers were beautifully crafted and finished guns - amazing bluing

This one is from the early fiftys

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T series Hi Power in excellent condition +/- $1,000 out here on the wet coast (Island anyway). Hi Power parts (scarce as hens teeth) pretty much depends on how badly you need them, and how quickly - not cheap, see remark about hen's teeth.
 
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The red/orange on the back of the grips mean that they are indeed Browning grips from the right period for the pistol. rigrat
 
enefgee said:
T series Hi Power in excellent condition +/- $1,000 out here on the wet coast (Island anyway). Hi Power parts (scarce as hens teeth) pretty much depends on how badly you need them, and how quickly - not cheap, see remark about hen's teeth.
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I believe this one would be pre "T" series and yes, the T guns are very desirable, however I feel the earlier High Powers are even more so.
 
Not a "T" series.

Looks like the barrel is an Inglis HP series barrel. The John Inglis Company built copies of the vaunted Browning High Power for the Canadian government. Inglis made IHP for the Canadian Army for WW2 and the Chi-com series, aka CH, for the soon-to-be communist Chinese government.
The barrel appears to not be original, but an Inglis barrel, hence the crossed flagged markings.
Why someone would replace the factory barrel with an Inglis wartime barrel is a puzzle.
The Inglis High Power pistol began with 0T serial number, up to 9T, with production starting in 1944. 151,000 Inglis High Power guns were made, including the Chi-com series, CH.
Your gun is probably worth around C$650.-750.
 
History distortion here, the Hi-Powers were made for the Nationalists of the ROC government, not for the Chinese Communists. Inglis supplied only to the KMT forces under Chiang Kai Shek.
 
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