does anybody know the approximate value of a completely non-functional old SxS??

[greyling22]

does anybody know the approximate value of a completely non-functional old SxS?

I have an old beater that was given to me as a wall hanger, but my wife won't let me put it up. The stock is broken at the wrist, the finish is garbage, the triggers are competly frozen, the gun opens, but the opening lever just flops without spring tension. And the barrels aren't even damascus.

it is stamped "new york arms"

I was going to toss it up on the local face to face gun forum, and had no idea what to ask. is $20 reasonable? too low? too high?

 

[Jim Watson]

Heck, ask a hundred.

The Crescent Fire Arms Co. of Norwich, CT was the largest maker of "house brand" hardware store and catalog house shotguns in the world.
They were in business from the early 1890's until about 1930.

The tradename "New York Arms Co." was made for Garnet Carter Co. of Chattanooga, TN

Garnet Carter is better known as "The Father of Miniature Golf."

 

[WestKentucky]

If it wouldn’t be such a pain to get it shipped I would buy it at $100. Put it up as a parts gun or some such and ask for trade offers. See what pops up.

 

[1KPerDay]

More than $20.

 

[kudu]

Yep, ask for $100, take $75 or $50 if they counter offer. I'd give $50 just to tinker around with the innards, and see what is broken.

 

[Paul R Zartman]

but my wife won't let me put it up.

You are in need of a Man Cave, keep it till you get one,

 

[greyling22]

You are in need of a Man Cave, keep it till you get one,

no man cave in the foreseeable future. I'm lucky to have a place to set up a permanent reloading bench. (across from the laundry in the hallway on the way to the garage. so I guess I have half a man passthrough?) I'm in a decluttering mood.

 

[paul harm]

I feel for you. My whole house is full of guns. The muzzle loaders I built from scratch are on the walls and over the fireplace, modern handguns in fake books and mantel clocks, the rest locked up in the basement. And my wife most certainly doesn't tell me where to put a gun as long as it's safe.

 

[desidog]

I have one of those in .410 had to replace a firing pin. If I hadn't made one, I'd give you $20 just for the firing pins. Those parts are hard to come by.

The metal looks pretty good. I'd keep it and see about getting some new wood for it.

try http://gunstocksinc.com/web_pages/Plate-pics/Misc.-Stocks/Crescent-hammerless-buttstock.htm

or https://www.carolinagunstocks.com/quail-special-410cal.html

 

[MacAR]

Pity you aren't closer, I'd love to have it for a project. Been wanting to try my hand at stock making, and have a bit of walnut leftover from when we logged the woodlot a few years ago. The internal parts probably wouldn't be too bad either. The triggers are likely just lightly rusted together, an easy fix. And if you're lucky the top lever spring has only slipped off it's post and isn't broken. But they aren't that hard to make either. If you can't find anyone locally interested, let me know. I might be able to make it worth your while to send up to the hills.

Mac

 

[Choctaw]

If it was given to you why not pay it forward?

 

[PapaG]

Sold a fair number of them out of the shop for anywhere from 50 to 150, as wall hangers only. Pulled firing pins on the really shabby ones.

 

[Thomasss]

In Wisconsin, like in a fishing cabin, up'd north, were selling for $60 and then again a parts gun?

 

[greyling22]

apparently you can get $80 for them fairly easilty in east texas. Thanks guys. That helps cover some of the poor firearms choices I have made lately. (screwing up modifying a scope base, selling a scope I didn't like at a loss etc)