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Helping Sister Sell 2 Guns
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Jim
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July 21, 2024 - 6:07 am
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My aging sister doesn’t use computers. She wrote me a letter asking how to value and sell her deceased husband’s 2 guns. She describes them as “Theodore Roosevelt Commemorative Winchester Model 94 Lever Action Repeating Rifle, 30-30 Winchester 26″ octagonal barrel Made in USA. #326379. G9454R #4246 and G9455 #5249. In the box and decorative sleeve.”

Where do I go to look these up? Where would it be best to post them for sale?

Thank you for your consideration on this matter.

(PS – I have owned guns for 50+ years, but only for recreation and protection, not as a collector.)

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Hi Jim,

If she has both the rifle and carbine in the TR commems like pictured here: https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1058154585 you can figure around $2000 give or take for both. They’re not particularly valuable or sought after of the commemoratives but if they’re both NIB someone will want them eventually at a reasonable price. If I were you, I’d list them together on GB or GI and undercut the current listings for a better chance at sale. 

The post-63 guns aren’t all that popular over here as our group tends to focus on pre-64 stuff, although there are a few commems that I do like and would buy if given the opp. 

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Jeremy P said If I were you, I’d list them together on GB or GI and undercut the current listings for a better chance at sale. 

 I think listing them together would mean less for each than if sold individually.  A potential buyer might already have one or the other. 

I’d like to have one of the TR medallions, but not enough to buy the gun to get it.

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My sister adds that the rifles are in the original boxes and the boxes are in good shape. The boxes have been opened and the rifles handled, but not fired.

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clarence said

 I think listing them together would mean less for each than if sold individually. 

  

Sometimes yes, some maybe not. I’ve gotten a “set” before simply because it saved me half the time looking for the other. 6 of one half dozen of the other I’m afraid. Depends on how much they want to mess with them.

 

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I don’t know what numbers You are refering to, the Winchester Theodore Roosevelt Commemoratives were mfg. in 1969, there were 52386 rifles &carbines produced , and they had a “TR” prefix to the serial number, so I don’t know what numbers, (G9454 & 9455) You are refering to. They would be worth more , to a collector as a sequentialy numbered pair.

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