M1 carbine

[Light Infantry]

Hi everyone

Do early variant M1 Carbine high wood stocks carry a premium price?

Also, does anyone know the cut off date on serial numbers for various manufacturers when they switched?

Trying to decide what to keep and what to sell. Very difficult to get pricing in Canada for some reason, can’t find any reference points for stocks as well as a bunch of other parts I have.
Does anyone have any suggestions for Canadian sources so I can price appropriately?

 

[louthepou]

Aside from the EE here, not sure where one can gauge the market value of these carbines and parts. Indeed, it's a rather weird world, that of the M1 Carbine. I know next to nothing about them, other than prices can vary from way cheap, to stupid expensive. WW2-dated ones seem to be the holy grails, while you can get dirt cheap bargains (relatively speaking) for post ww2-made Universal M1 Carbines, even the early ones made with milsurp parts. (that's the case with mine).

Of course the fact that these are (for the most part) all restricted firearms means that the market is small, but yet some command surprisingly high prices. Hopefully someone will enlighten us about what's going on!

And never mind the modern, non-restricted, expensive Auto-Ordnance versions. They are definitely overpriced, poor facsimile, imho.

 

[contact148]

prices are all over I pickup several m1 carbines a year from beaters to mint original example and never pay anything like you see on the EE US prices have ZERO bearing on carbines in Canada

high wood stocks were known as type 2 stocks (second variation from the I cut stocks)

cutoff for type 2 approx
inland 400,000
winchester 1,115,000
Underwood 1,440,000
Rock-Ola 1,700,000
Quality hardware 1,630.000
Irwin pedersen 1,765,000
saginaw S'G' 1,767,223 ONLY used type 2 stocks
Saginaw Gear 3,280,000
National postal meter 1,490,000
Standard products 1,985,000
IBM 3,670,000

 

[jody_v]

Maybe this might help.



Type I is the high-wood stock with I cut oiler cutout.
Type II is the the high-wood stock with the oval oiler cutout
Type III is the low-wood stock with the oval oiler cutout
Type IV is the low-wood stock with the oval oiler cutout but with the cutouts for the M2 selector switch
Type V is the pot belly stock

M1 carbine collectors are a puritan bunch, usually looking for true and correct models that have been untouched by the great molestation after the war when parts were mixed, safeties were changed, bayo lugs and adjustable sights were added. I suspect your high wood stock could command a good price as these were quite prevalent on the early models.

 

[can14]

Before the American's cut off the sale of m1 carbine parts, it was easy to match up the guns
We had the German/ Austrian Border Police carbine's in mostly exc condition which they couldn't import
They had most of the original parts, so you could get the rest from the American Parts Dealers to match them up
But, that was many years ago