Good Heavens To Murgatroid!!!!

[harvey_s]

At which point, you can't use the use the item because it ceases to be 'NIB' and youv'e got a mint item in a very expensive piece of cardboard......I can see the point if you collect packaging, but not if you have any real interest in the airgun itself.

[edbear2]

At which point, you can't use the use the item because it ceases to be 'NIB' and youv'e got a mint item in a very expensive piece of cardboard......I can see the point if you collect packaging, but not if you have any real interest in the airgun itself.

Harvey......I agree with all of this, I was just trying to work out why it was worth so much to somebody!.....the "box" actually looked more like the insert packaging/protection you get on a scope in a mark I meteor set, rather than the boxes that scopes come in when bought as separate items, so maybe the Mk2 airsporter came in a large box with an accessory tray, which may explain it......Plastic oil bottles, hang tags, and targets and holders etc. for later Airsporter/Mercury models all sell at far and above what you would think reasonable due to people wanting to fill all the sections of a gun box, and get "the full set" ...Has anyone on here got, or know, how Mk2's came in those days?

[munchman]

The MK2 kit came is a cardboard box sectioned .....which included one section for the scope in the box that is on the E#ay post. The MK 2 did include the scope in the kit. However, the scope is not metal it was/is made of Polystyrene ( Plastic) like an Airfix model kit. It did/does have glass lenses.
As you state; the dovetails , 4 x grooved approx 15 mm, makes the scope fairly unique.
I would not pay any more than £40 for such a scope...
As some of you have stated the scope is the original one for the MK2 Airsporter and it does appear on the sales brochure for the MK2 Airsporter with a little 'write up'.
I have the brochure from 1960 and it's on it....
Just a thought....
Some people pay £40-£50 for empty pellet tins
I think that E#ay is fantastic....I have managed to source numerous parts for my 1983 Cagiva motorcycle utilising E#ay in Italy, Germany and the USA...

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