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Posted: 12/5/2011 2:28:03 PM EDT
| Do serial numbers have anything to do with value? I saw a 9,000 range in a pawn shop today $795.00. Stock was beat to hell but have heard low numbers are worth more. |
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I don't know how much it affects the price, especially if it is a mix-master. Just the same, that serial number range puts the receivers date of manufacture sometime in early 1939. Might be something to consider having a second look at.
edit: Break it down..look at the drawing numbers, etc. Check out the bore. Hey, maybe the stock is original! You never know. |
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Not much of a premium just for the low serial. If it has a bunch of correct parts that is another story. Back when the CMP was selling multiple grades of stripped receivers I ordered a grade B and received a low 5-digit receiver. It is interesting to compare the differences between a early receiver and a late WWII receiver. |
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4 digit serial recvr alone if in nice shape is worth $750 alone, a bit more if it doesn't have 7th round mod. A 4 digit Garand recvr brings a verygood premium even in mixmaster condition its all about quantity....
9,000 4 digit recvrs made 90,000. 5 digits... 900,000 6 digits... As long as the recvr isn't a reweld or cracked I'd buy it in a heart beat. You need to be there tommorow to buy it if it truly is a Springfield 4 digit serial recvr..... |
| depends on whether or not you like having a rifle with "history" or not, my first two Garands are both WW2 serial numbers, one is dated from January and the other from November, both Springfields. Both have definitely been rebuilt and refinshed but knowing that there is a possibility that perhaps my rifle stormed Normandy or Iwo Jima is pretty cool to me. I would say the price is what you make of ti, but a Garand for that price alone is hard to beat these days, I would make sure it's a shooter and if you decide later on that the stock is not what you want you can always find correct stockss on GB or even Ebay. |
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