Value of a 3 digit serial number garand?

[Syxx15]

I have a Springfield-Armory Garand with a very low 3 digit serial number store away in the ol'd gun locker. It's not an oringal gas trap. Just wondering what the vaule is on. Some of the parts match the serial lots numbers!

Thanks for your time!

 

[contact148]

not too much here in canad unless you found someone who HAD to have it

in the U.S it would go for big $ but you CAN NOT send it back there

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

Early SA Garand

You may have a receiver that can't be exported to the US, but you may have parts that can. There may be restrictions on the border going South, but I really don't know.

I'd suggest you go to www.jouster.com and find their data sheet form. Get a copy of the Kuhnhasen (sp?) shop manual on Garands. Your job is to educate yourself on the fussy details of the drawing numbers and marking variations of gas trap parts. There are repro parts in cirulation, but if you can show a clear lineage from, say Denmark to Alan Lever to you, then there is little argument that you built a mixer of old-style parts but in fact have old parts that left the US many years ago.

Interesting research project. You might have several thousand Yankee dollars in assets there in the locker. Before you sell, check back with us - please.

 

[Pistol Pete]

If yours came from the same place as mine, and I think it did, they came from Veitnam. I believe I went to the same place as Syxx15 after I saw his and bought the last one they had for $350.

Mine is a 1941 Springfield, all original, matching everything and never re-arsenalled (sp?). I asked where they came from and was told it was a shipment, together with a pile of Winchester trench guns, that came from Vietnam. So it seems that a pile of nice stuff went over there and found it's way to Canada. What are the odds of an all original 1941 gun and a three digit serial gun in the same lot? I just read that a large lot of un-issued M1's are to be sold in the US soon. Who knows?

 

[SKScanuck]

I see the value listed at $2,500 $5,000 in "Standard Catalog of Military Firearms". This for serial number 81-52,000 Springfield gas trap modified to gas port. I doubt you'll get that for it in Canada today. I'd keep it myself. But if you want to sell, maybe Questar could help?