Looking for information on a Marca Grulla SxS

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I’m considering buying a 20ga Marca grulla M206 SxS

It appears to be in excellent shape and has a lot of the features I’m looking for, but I don’t know much about these guns and can’t find much information online.

This gun is a box lock with 25” barrels, 2 3/4” chambers, IC IC chokes, and ejectors. Any idea on expected value would also be handy.

Any info would be appreciated.
 
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Please post photos. Lots and lots of detailed photos.

There's a host of information available on Grulla. They make what I would consider some of the finest guns available. But, there were also plenty of average guns with their name on them made for export under the EIBAR consortium. If it's Grulla information in general you seek, they're still in business, so there's both historical and current information available.

If you want to know what the gun you describe might sell for, detailed photos are necessary.
 
The company was originally Union Armera. Grulla with an engraving of a crane was their trademark. Various boxlock and sidelock models, I seem to remember the M205, M210 and M215 as ascending grades of boxlocks. Union Armera was a comparable competitor to AYA, Victor Sarasqueta until the early 1980’s when 22? of these Spanish gunmaking companies joined a government sponsored co-op to make and market guns. Within a few years the effort fell apart ( we’re the government, we’re here to help you) and most of the participating makers went bankrupt. AYA and a few others survived and carried on. Union Armera came out of bankruptcy and restructured under the company name of Grulla Armas with a goal of making only high grade guns and continue in business today. Do not make the mistake of confusing older Union Armera branded guns with the Grulla trademark with newer best quality Grulla branded sidelock guns. The earlier guns are very nice but quality and market value are much different than the newer guns. A simple search of your gun by brand name and model will yield important results.

A few more dim memories creeping out of the cobwebby recesses of my mind…….I believe the Union Armera models in the 200 series
(201, 203, 205, 206,)etc.,were boxlocks of ascending grade and price with the 200 as the base model. The more expensive line of sidelocks were numbered starting at 210 and ascending at least to the 215 or higher. 20 gauges in any of these are quite scarce and command up to a 25% premium in price, more in some markets.
 
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The OP sent two photos that were supplied by the seller. The quality of the photos is poor, but it's still clear that this is one of the earlier Grullas that came before the current "best" gun era.

It is, however, a very nice sub-guage boxlock with a sculpted receiver, double underlugs, a rib extension, side clips, splinter fore end with Anson self-adjusting latch, double triggers, Prince of Wales grip, and fairly plain wood.

The seller is not asking an exhorbitant price for a sub-grade of this quality range and the gun is in very good condition.

These are the photos supplid by the seller (so far):

https://img.gg/Ni22NA7

I'm sure the OP would appreciate your opinions on the value.
 
Correct, Straightshooter, this is a medium grade boxlock by Union Armera, trademarked Grulla. These were decent guns, comparable to AYA boxlocks at the time and not comparable pricewise to the Union Armera or AYA sidelocks of the same era ( pre 1980). Forget the word Grulla, it means nothing in this context and adds no value to the gun. Spanish guns in general suffer from the very poor reputation created by the flood of poorly made Spanish guns, mostly with importer’s names rather than maker’s names that came onto our shores in the 60’s and 70’s, sort of the Belgian clunker of their day. This suspicion drives the value down for all Spanish guns, even on ones made today. Brand name guns like this were generally decent guns and can usually be had for a good price. Compare this gun to a same condition 20 gauge Ithaca/SKB model 100 or 200, then deduct 30-40% because of the Spanish curse. Used Spanish guns are attractive, easy to buy but hard to sell.
 
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