Not import stamped CZ 52 - What's it worth?

[the count]

Just checked out one of the guns in my collection which I really like but hardly shoot. Its a like new CZ 52 in about 98-99% condition. Noticed that is does not have any import markings. What are one of these worth? Common/Rare? Not thinking of selling it, just so I know what I got.

 

[psyshack]

Mine has none of the import stuff on it either. Mine was a gift. The person that gave it to me paid $169 for it three years ago. There is one in a LGS with import marking, rearsenaled, clean for $259.

 

[the count]

Ooops, guess the gun is import marked after all. used a magnifying glass and found a very faint V.T. on the frame right above the trigger. Guess is was a sloppy stamp by CAI.

 

[Shadow 7D]

BINGO!!!!
ALL of them are import stamped, unless you got it from a guy who snuck it in from VERY interesting parts....

 

[RugerMcMarlin]

Those are pretty impressive pistols both in the way they function, roller lock if its the one I'm thinking of, and the cartridge.Flat shooting too. A guy like psyshak can really make it sing. He has a target on one of the other threads thats pretty impressive. Maybe he will repost it here.

 

[MachIVshooter]

Even if it didn't have marks, it'd be worth no more than the rest. There are some milsurps and other guns that would be more desireable to the point of commanding a higher price without marks, but the 52 isn't one of them.

 

[PabloJ]

Just checked out one of the guns in my collection which I really like but hardly shoot. Its a like new CZ 52 in about 98-99% condition. Noticed that is does not have any import markings. What are one of these worth? Common/Rare? Not thinking of selling it, just so I know what I got.

I had early CZ-75 brought in through Canada and can tell you there would be little premium for non-import marked handgun made in Czechoslovakia. Thanks to that a.. licker Neville Chamberlain the country was handed to Adolf Hitler w/o hardly a shot being fired. Hitler was right when he called that Pinnocchio Chamberlain a.. licker or a.. kisser.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

On collectibility the 52 isn't one of them. As I recall reading, about 200,000 were made between 1952 and 1954. Relatively speaking, now they are relatively inexpensive, not collectibles, just a cheap used gun. Twenty, thirty years from now? That pool of 200,000 will get smaller.

 

[psyshack]

I like mine so much there is no reason what so ever to have a 1911.