Just like to say Hi I have been on this site
for some time and never sent a post ( not good with e mail) However I have a old gun that need a value and hope you can help.
Just like to say Hi I have been on this site
for some time and never sent a post ( not good with e mail) However I have a old gun that need a value and hope you can help.
Hi and welcome....I am an apprentice on this excellent Forum...a great wealth of knowledge to be had from the experts. Bu,t a good valuation needs more information and possibly photographs; make, model, serial number, condition and so on......You may be on to a winner if it is a BSA Centenary 0.25, it may generate a bit of interest with those who have a fetish for those wooden things.....
All the best....
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Welcome and a photo is good!
Its not a bsa but a Theoben imperator FT 177
In mint condition last time I looked
Once site will let me put up pics will add photo
http://s1380.photobucket.com/user/st...a.jpg.html?o=2
Theoben imperator FT 177 ,
My understanding is that about 50 rh 6 lh where made
mint condition for age any info on this gun.
Last edited by steve burns; 28-07-2016 at 07:44 AM. Reason: photo not working
Welcome to the best bit of the best forum.
That is nice (and no, I am not covertly offering to buy it, I'm skint in respect of funds for guns just now).
I can't confirm whether only 56 were made, but that wouldn't surprise me: they are very rare. To be honest, that's because they were really expensive - like £600ish in 1999 - and weren't actually any better as an FT springer than a tuned 77, and by the time they came out PCPs had started to take off.
Rarity makes it quite hard to price.
Assuming it is indeed near-mint, and all the internals work as they should, if it were mine, I would not dream of letting it go for less than £450, and I'd probably hold out for £600 unless I really needed the cash, on the assumption that the right buyer would eventually come along who has always wanted one in his Theoben collection.
At the right auction, say a Holts main sale, I could see it doing very well too, not least because it might attract American buyers as well as UK ones.
Is that a Tasco 6-24x40TR on top? That's worth something like £80-120 on its own.