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Posted: 1/17/2009 11:39:35 AM EDT
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What are various common types of magazines worth, and how do you identify the common magazines?
I looked at the tacked thread... but it just gave me a link to a bunch of pictures, mostly of people showing off rare magazines. No prices that I saw. I got some magazines, they were sold as "European".... Europe is a big place... is there anything more specific? What are these "generic" "European" magazines with the ribbed back worth typically? Is there any way to tell what country they came from or anything... mine have no markings at all that I can see. Also, I found some Chinese made magazines, with a green "Made in China" sticker on the front. Packed in cosmoline, in bags of two. They are the "not ribbed" variety. What are these worth? I really just need a guide to the commonly found AK magazines, and what they typically sell for. |
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Magazines are really an interesting subject. Sometimes, many from the same country will have slightly different markings. Often, if you can ID it from an arsenal marking, you can get close with looking at weld patterns and such.
Unfortunately, there isn't an all-encompassing guide but rather several smaller guides of different magazines. A few of us have given thought to creating a huge reference but time, etc. interferes. Try here for some general guidance in the stickies: Also, it's hard to establish a price on magazines since the market for them is often quite fluid. A magazine that was selling for $80 today may be worth $25 next week if a huge number of them flood into the US (like the old SportsmansGuide magazine lottery - some very rare magazines were de-valued after many came in). But as time goes on and the potential for no more magazines imported into the US increases, it may stabilize and set a concrete price on them. Your "Made in China" magazines are typically $20-$25 depending on condition. Your "generic" magazines are often Romanian, Hungarian, East German, Polish, or Bulgarian and can be found with little to no markings sometimes. They'll hover in the neighborhood of about the same - $20 or so depending on condition, finish, and markings. If you post some photos, we can help you ID them for you. |
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Magazines are really an interesting subject. Sometimes, many from the same country will have slightly different markings. Often, if you can ID it from an arsenal marking, you can get close with looking at weld patterns and such. Unfortunately, there isn't an all-encompassing guide but rather several smaller guides of different magazines. A few of us have given thought to creating a huge reference but time, etc. interferes. Try here for some general guidance in the stickies: http://www.theakforum.net/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=9 Also, it's hard to establish a price on magazines since the market for them is often quite fluid. A magazine that was selling for $80 today may be worth $25 next week if a huge number of them flood into the US (like the old SportsmansGuide magazine lottery - some very rare magazines were de-valued after many came in). But as time goes on and the potential for no more magazines imported into the US increases, it may stabilize and set a concrete price on them. Your "Made in China" magazines are typically $20-$25 depending on condition. Your "generic" magazines are often Romanian, Hungarian, East German, Polish, or Bulgarian and can be found with little to no markings sometimes. They'll hover in the neighborhood of about the same - $20 or so depending on condition, finish, and markings. If you post some photos, we can help you ID them for you. I am rather busy today, but will try posting some photographs tonight. I'm glad to hear that about the prices. I payed $16 for the European. I payed $25 for a 2 pack of the Chinese. The others are on the way... 8 of them at $7.50 a piece.... I hope I got lucky on them, they're supposed to be "rough". |
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Magazines are really an interesting subject. Sometimes, many from the same country will have slightly different markings. Often, if you can ID it from an arsenal marking, you can get close with looking at weld patterns and such. Unfortunately, there isn't an all-encompassing guide but rather several smaller guides of different magazines. A few of us have given thought to creating a huge reference but time, etc. interferes. Try here for some general guidance in the stickies: http://www.theakforum.net/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=9 Also, it's hard to establish a price on magazines since the market for them is often quite fluid. A magazine that was selling for $80 today may be worth $25 next week if a huge number of them flood into the US (like the old SportsmansGuide magazine lottery - some very rare magazines were de-valued after many came in). But as time goes on and the potential for no more magazines imported into the US increases, it may stabilize and set a concrete price on them. Your "Made in China" magazines are typically $20-$25 depending on condition. Your "generic" magazines are often Romanian, Hungarian, East German, Polish, or Bulgarian and can be found with little to no markings sometimes. They'll hover in the neighborhood of about the same - $20 or so depending on condition, finish, and markings. If you post some photos, we can help you ID them for you. I am rather busy today, but will try posting some photographs tonight. I'm glad to hear that about the prices. I payed $16 for the European. I payed $25 for a 2 pack of the Chinese. The others are on the way... 8 of them at $7.50 a piece.... I hope I got lucky on them, they're supposed to be "rough". you did fine you did great 
Look really closely at the spines on your Euro mags, spine stamps are the easiest way for me to ID mags. |
| Some of the Romanians I have just have some illegible stampings and some actually have the "arrow (without the fletchings) in the triangle" arsenal stamp. It's just luck of the draw on them but there's lots of magazines out there from different countries that have no markings. |
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