Liberator Pistol - what is it worth?

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I just witnessed one being sold in an auction,
in good condition, for just 230 €!

Is that a good price`?

Maybe we/I should get into exporting rare models,
that don´t get as much interest here - to the US?


I can also get ma hands on a mint-condition
Luger 08, S42 Mauser "Tonne" in its original Holster
with 2 original cartons of ammo.
(Story behind it, too.....)

Due to the strict laws here the number of people eligible
for buying guns is tiny.... and of those only a small percentage
is even online......

Does anyone know how costly or complicated a transatlantic transfer would be?

Lots of old hunting rifles from Suhl are being auctioned off,
as their original owners pass away.
Recently Rommel´s Shotgun was sold!

oh here
2195279_49c521fc4be04.jpg


This auction is still on for 24 days!
http://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=2195279
 
Didn't I read somewhere that the cardboard box it came in is suppose to be more valuable than the gun itself? Or am I remembering that wrong.
 
That could well be true. The pistols are quite rugged being pressed steel and rivets - and were generally only fired the once in order to get whatever your enemy was carrying. There's probably thousands of them in attics all over France. The boxes would be pretty rare - I think they had the instructions for operating the single shot cocking mechanism pasted onto the lid - and if you had one of these pistols in occupied territory you'd be sure to burn the box asap before Jerry saw it - not something you'd chuck in your dustbin. Not YOUR dustbin anyway - maybe a commie rival's dustbin. :)

I seem to recall General Motors made them.
 
I spent the Winter of 1971-1972 at Rhein-Maine Air Base, not far from Frankfurt-am-Maine. One afternoon I was in a cutlery shop and a man walked in with a nice walnut case under his arm. When he opened it for the shop owner, I saw one of the most beautiful Artillery model LP-08 (Luger) pistols I've ever seen. It had all of the accessories, each in a plush lined compartment of the case. I've often thought about that pistol and how much I'd love to have it.
 
230eu would be an outstanding price for a librator. I have seen them between $1250 and $2000 depending on the box and if they have the original ammo.
 
A current listsing from Randall Besssler's very fine Collector Firearms site:

45ACP, sn:NSN. The Classic U.S. WWII Stamped Sheet Metal Single Shot Pistol Designed for Partisan Use in the European and Pacific Theaters. One Million were Produced in Record Time by General Motors Guide Lamp Division During WWII. They were ordered to be Destroyed at the end of the War and Very Few Survive. In Fine Original Condition. Complete with Floorplate. $2750. Item: HG-1550.

http://www.collectorfirearms.org/
 
Looks unused. Was it dropped in France?

way too funny. if it was in france of course it is unfired :rolleyes:
and was droped once:D:D
 
Just to be fair...the reputation for "dropping" weapons applies to the French Army not the French resistance (underground) of WWII. They were a formidable fighting force equal to the best of partisan forces. IIRC;), the US dropped the Liberator first,by parachute, that is. Now back to you regular programming.
 
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"Recently Rommel´s Shotgun was sold!" Cool!

And I have Clint Eastwood's 44 Mag revolver form the original Dirty Harry movie -- honest!
 
I'm not sure how much luck you would have "importing" a Liberator into the U.S. now.

They have a smoothbore barrel, have no serial number or other markings, and would certainly not have all the brownie points to make it a "sporting handgun".


BTW: I have shot one, and they are a most unpleasant little beastie!
Apparently, excess headspace allows the case to get a running start and push the heavy striker back, partway re-cocking it.

Then it takes a divot of meat out of the web of your hand when it snaps back forward the second time!

rc
 
Curiously though you might have a better time of it exporting to the UK as being of historical interest / an antique (although not an antique in the true sense of the word). Funny old world.
 
I don't own a Glock but for those who say they are ugly a Glock looks like a pearl compared to that thing.
 
The story goes that Stalin specifically requested these things NOT be airdropped into eastern Europe. We dropped some into Yugoslavia and Greece anyway, and the head red got irritated. Not that his commissars had much to worry about a handful of single-shot pistols; it was the symbolism and the potential precedent instead. Gehlen wanted to resume this sort of program in Poland and points east, but was overruled by Dulles. Partisan warfare continued in Ukraine until at least 1955, and in Latvia until 1980.
 
If the guns are importable, you can get them into the US on an ATF Form 6. There are regulations that have to be complied with.

That being said, there might well be a good business opportunity handling eGun transactions. They have some items over there which are quite expensive in the United States...but very cheap in Europe.
 
Odd, I was just reading about the Liberator .45 cal. Pistol last week.
The production cost was $2.10 each approximately one million pistols were produced. Would have never guessed that it would be worth $2,000 today.
 
And if I remember correctly, most were dumped tn the ocean, it was never a really good ideal but they were cheap. I also believe there is no record of them ever being ifred in anger.
 
sounds like there´s actually money to make........

I think i will talk to a very established dealer here in Hamburg,
he must know about the HOW/HOWMUCH.
 
Still laughing from half way down the thread...........:D




no matter how roughly made, those are a great piece of history IMO.
 
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