About 15 or 20 years ago I bought this revolver brand new from a gun store that was going out of business. I've never developed any interest in shooting black powder revolvers so it's sat unfired in my safe ever since.
I forgot all about it until I recently saw a local gun store offering a nearly identical used Uberti revolver for $350. I told the guy behind the counter about my revolver and he told me he thought it was worth $50.
It's a factory assembled gun with a brass frame, color case hardened seating lever, hammer and wood grips. It's never been fired. It still looks like new. It's marked "A.S.M. Black Powder Only CAL 36 Made in Italy" on the underside of the barrel. The cylinder is engraved with sailing ships and the serial number is in the 52xxx range.
If it's worth anything I might as well sell it and put the money towards something I'll shoot, but if all it's worth is $50 I'll keep it. It's pretty and it fits nicely in an old ornate gun fighter rig I've got, it will probably make a nice wall hanger.
What's a fair asking price for it?
I forgot all about it until I recently saw a local gun store offering a nearly identical used Uberti revolver for $350. I told the guy behind the counter about my revolver and he told me he thought it was worth $50.
It's a factory assembled gun with a brass frame, color case hardened seating lever, hammer and wood grips. It's never been fired. It still looks like new. It's marked "A.S.M. Black Powder Only CAL 36 Made in Italy" on the underside of the barrel. The cylinder is engraved with sailing ships and the serial number is in the 52xxx range.
If it's worth anything I might as well sell it and put the money towards something I'll shoot, but if all it's worth is $50 I'll keep it. It's pretty and it fits nicely in an old ornate gun fighter rig I've got, it will probably make a nice wall hanger.
What's a fair asking price for it?