Liege sidelock with hammers

[Lawrence D]

I want to ask a few questions about (Belgian) Liege 12ga sxs sidelock with hammers. It has some rust on the barrel and there is a slight play on the barrels. Not damaskus, wood is ok and some engraving exist on the plates. What would some thing like that be worth, you think? Is it worth restoring and re do the metal and wood?

 

[gunsaholic]

It is not a high value gun and as it is it's roughly a $300.00 gun on a good day. Restoration depends on how far you want to go. I see there is a small crack in the forearm wood by the metal. If you want wood refinished, checkering recut, barrels reblued, case coloring done and other metal parts colored as well as barrels put back on face, you would probably be in the $1500.00 to $2000.00 range from what I have experienced when having guns restored. You would never see your money back out of it as far as value but sometimes we (okay, I ) restore these guns just because we want to. So you have to decide if it's worth it to you. If the bores have any major degree of pitting, you might want to rethink the idea of restoring it.

 

[tiriaq]

Have a look at TradeEx list of shotguns. There are a number of guns like this one for sale.

 

[Lawrence D]

Thanks, that was very helpful. I got a better idea now.