Which Browning should I keep

Whippy

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Hi folks, I have two Baby Brownings and am selling one to a friend, but am unsure which one to keep for myself! Both are in identical excellent condition and have the soft zipper case, but one is a 1961 and the other is a 1968. My instinct is to keep the '61 for myself but I also own a Browning Model 1955 that was made in 1968 so would kind of like to keep the 1968 models together!

Do you think there would be any difference in value for the two Baby Brownings based on year?
 

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We in our "community" place value on many different things, and not always uniformly or universally.

You, yourself are pointing out that you are, potentially, on keeping the two "68s" together.

Now, you put the two on a tablecloth for sale in front of me, and I'd probably looks at condition first, then age. So, I might lean to the '61. Dunno.
 
If I couldn't decide on my own, I'd keep them.

I have been accused of having too much time on my hands, don't want to spend any of it 2nd guessing a decision I didn't need to make.
 
two Baby Brownings
I would sell both. Buy something more useful . Sorry.
I have this copy, cant get $100 for it.

I know a prison guard who was shot with a 25. He didnt know it till the escaping prisoner was killed.
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If in comparable condition, I would keep the '68 because
I had another '68.
That was the last year Our Beloved Leaders trusted us with a small foreign pistol.
 
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I would sell both. Buy something more useful . Sorry.
I have this copy, cant get $100 for it.

I know a prison guard who was shot with a 25. He didnt know it till the escaping prisoner was killed.
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Mr. 243, that is not a 'copy' as in 'duplicate of patent' it is a Basque pistol - from the name being Spanish, I would assume the Eibar region of Spain - and the same internal design concept as the Ruby breed, except smaller. Likely quite reliable and useful, but harder to get parts. The design of the trigger, disconnecter and safety is very different from the Browning. At a casual look, I can only find the company making the pistol was owned (wholly or in some part) by a Gregorio Bolumburo, of Eibar, Spain.

I'm not just being pedantic. This Regina is likely just as handy and useful as the Browning; but the Browning is more sought after by collectors and thereby 'worth' more.

I now return this thread to the original discussion.
 
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