There is a gentleman who would like to buy my lever action r...

There is a gentleman who would like to buy my lever action rifle inherited from my grandfather. I know next to nothing (actually, nothing) about gun values.
It is a Winchester 1894 .32 WS serial 908522 in what I would consider reasonably good condition. A little rust, probably needs cleaned but I don't want to mess with it.
Any suggestion as to value?

Hagar,


I would give almost anything to have my grandfathers rifle. That would be so cool. But if you are going to sell it yes at lest get a fair deal. And you have touched on just what drives the price. The condition is it by far. Some special features may at time be very important but condition is number one.

Your grandfathers rifle was manufactured in 1922. I have original catalogs from then and he probably spent a touch less than $25 on it. Since you have registerd it would help greatly if we could look at some photos. Take the rifle out doors into the shade and do not use the camera flash. Trust me the pictures will be better. Take a series of close ups of each side of the rifle. From that we can narrow down a range of values. Right now to little is known to be very accurate.

I look forward to some photos or at least more of a description. A standard Sporting rifle will look like the photo below. It could have an octagonal or round barrel. Probably octagonal. If it is a carbine it will have a round barrel but a steel band all the way around the barrel and fore end.

Good luck
2bit

Hi 2bit,

I'm about to try attaching some images I took. Not sure if I'm doing this properly, but here goes.

Screwed up. Trying again.

Hagar,

I sent these instrucyions to another person. You might try it.

The file may be too large. Can you reduce the file size and try again. There are some guidlines somewher on the site but I do not remember where they are right now. Sorry. If you open the photo in Microsoft Picture manager then go to Edit Photo and on the bottom of the right side there is "Change Image Size" Go to Compress Pictures and click on Web pages option. Then save that image when you close out and then reattach it to the post.
Now wasn't that easy???


2bit

Well, I just messed with the images in another program, I'll try again. I don't have Windows.

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Hagar,

Well, that rifle is no powder puff by any stretch. Winchester receivers almost always look worse off than the barrels. When they look better something is wrong. The sling swivel is from who knows where. Obviously not original. The barrels don't look too bad based on the photos. There looks to be a crack in the toe of the stock. If you can get $500 To $700 I think you should take it. Anything more is gravey.

Good luck.
Let me know how it turns out.

2bit

Thanks 2bit. I appreciate your expertise and comments.

You are welcome