Lincoln Jeffries

[markwarren]

Hi,

I have the opportunity to purchase what I think is a Lincoln Jeffries (?) airgun - well it says Lincoln Jeffries on the stock Its serial number is 8195. It needs a bit of TLC and so I would be buying it as a project.

I have no idea what it is worth and don't want to rip off the seller - a colleague at work.

Any rough ideas on what it is worth. I do have some pics but can't put them on here for some reason.

Many thanks

Mark

[johnbaz]

Hi Mark

I recently bought this 1911 Improved mod D for £100.

It shoots fine but the top of the foresight is missing so it shoots a bit high until I get another unit or try welding the one on it up!!

I paid £130 for this 1936 BSA Standard mod2 from the sales corner here on the BBS

I also have a non runner that was a freebie!! A 1906 BSA Air Rifle that needs a few parts


Good luck with the purchase



John

[Garvin]

Hi,

I have the opportunity to purchase what I think is a Lincoln Jeffries (?) airgun - well it says Lincoln Jeffries on the stock Its serial number is 8195. It needs a bit of TLC and so I would be buying it as a project.

I have no idea what it is worth and don't want to rip off the seller - a colleague at work.

Any rough ideas on what it is worth. I do have some pics but can't put them on here for some reason.

Many thanks

Mark

Condition is all, Mark. A tatty one with bits missing may be worth £50 and a nice, little used one (if there are any!) £400+.

You can always post links to pics hosted on Photobucket, Flickr etc.

[markwarren]

Thanks for the replies.

I will try and get some pictures put on Flickr or something and post a link.

Cheers

Mark

[markwarren]

Here , hopefully, is a link to some pictures of the gun.

http://s1251.photobucket.com/user/ma...ibrary/Lincoln

Cheers

Mark

[Garvin]

Here , hopefully, is a link to some pictures of the gun.

http://s1251.photobucket.com/user/ma...ibrary/Lincoln

Cheers

Mark

Looks like it's been paint sprayed over rust. A lot of parts have been replaced, cobbled together etc, so that few parts that have value are salvageable. So you're buying it for what it is really, and if it shoots well then that's its best feature and probably more than the sum of its parts.

As for its value, it's probably as a shooter rather than a project, since finding replacement pattern parts would cost more than its eventual value and you'd be better off waiting for a better example with more or all of its original parts. I would pay maybe £50 if its internal parts worked well and I wanted a shooter.

[frogboy]

I'd agree with all that has been said, but I'd certainly pay the £50 as it has some parts i'd need to fix up one of mine that is cobbled together with incorrect parts.

If your looking for a project its financially beyond redemable if your looking to start collecting then it might be worth having for spares.

There are certainly better guns out there unfortunately I'm a sucker for the casualty cases or boat anchors as Edbear says when i present a new acquisition.


Lee

[battyone]

Poor thing It has had a rough time of it!

A couple of interesting repairs???

Looks like lead over the front sight and a bronze weld on one of the underlever link pins.

What a shame

But it might shoot great.

[edbear2]

Hi Mark, as others have said it has been in the wars. The foresight base is original but the bead has long gone (do-able), the rearsight is home made, the stock has at least one crack starting and is deeply scored by the look of it. The cocking arm pin has been possibly butchered and brazed, this could be unstuck, re-made and re-threaded to a larger size. But my main concern is the missing keeper screw from the main pivot and the pivot itself, the keeper screw counterbore looks very oval in the photo, so this area may have been hit hard, or gripped tightly in a vice

All is not lost, as Lee says there are some decent bits left which have a value, but not many, so as spares you might be looking at £60-100+ for the trigger / guard / stock which look salvageable, and possibly something more for the tap assembly, say another £20...These are dependant on someone wanting the parts obviously!

So...Broken up you might get around the £100 for the parts.

It would be a fair amount of work to get it looking even fairly good, and rear sights for these run at £30-50+ when they pop up (rarely), plus all the other work I would estimate at around £30-50 and that's before you get inside the thing!

If I needed the parts I would probably go to £60 or a bit more personally, ...as a project I would leave well alone as if you look around and are patient, you can get something complete, original and working for less than this will cost in time and effort, and it will never be right and therefore never have a decent value.

If you get it for £50-60 and have the time and ability to play around, it would at least save it from being broken up, and as has been mentioned, may even be a decent shooting gun you don't have to be too precious about.

I once had a £60 Model D sporting that was pretty dire, and no collector would have touched it with a broomhandle, yet was fun to shoot;

http://www.network54.com/Forum/67054...quot%3B+models

ATB, Ed

[DT Fletcher]

I'm not a collector of these guns but my suggestion would be to get it and pretty much keep it as-is. Getting it into working condition would be great. Display it with pride. In it's present state, it's part of air gun history. Trying to restore it would ruin it, in my opinion.

Value? If this gun was to show up on a US auction site: $150 range.