Bsa. Awc mercury 635 magnum .25.

[mark@mbb]

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[Jimny4x4]

BSA .25's do in fact go for an awful lot .
Any earlier Mercury ( Man Air custom tweaked ) , Cobra Strike Magnum ( L J Cammell ) or these later railed BSA own all seem to have a following now .
And if Boxed
Man , I wish lived in your neck of the woods Junglie

[junglie]

My freind got a tatty cobra strike for £20 with spare .22 barrel thrown in.My decent, but low on power(broken mainspring) & rust specked 635 was £150 & I sold it fully fettled & re-blued for £200 but the stock did have a few blemishes from use. What guns are advertised for & what they actually sell for often differs. Don't belive every price you read on t'internet.

[thisisdonald]

Aye.. then I just bought it for 250! Lol.. fact is .25s ARE rarer than .177 and .22 and rarer even than .20..... at least in springer format. You just have to read all that shecht about loopy trajectories and see that it puts lots of people off... newsflash.. EVERY calibre has a loopy trajectory... holdover is holdover- learn it and have fun!
I would say that if the gun in the OPs post was boxed it would be encroaching the 400 mark..like always though, the caveat is in the condition. If it truly is an unused very good condition gun that has been maintained (no crumbled buffer washer/seized/scored piston) then it may very well hit the 300 mark..
I'd wait for John & Josie and Garvin to chip in before posting for sale

[Jimny4x4]

My freind got a tatty cobra strike for £20 with spare .22 barrel thrown in.My decent, but low on power(broken mainspring) & rust specked 635 was £150 & I sold it fully fettled & re-blued for £200 but the stock did have a few blemishes from use. What guns are advertised for & what they actually sell for often differs. Don't belive every price you read on t'internet.

Well you just lucky thats all -
A 635 Magnum - with blemishes - you sold for £200 !
I'd say I wouldn't mind doing some cash deals with you Sir , but would feel guilty at fleecing you .
Mind I don't mind drifting up your way with a bundle of squids.
South of Birmingham you'd be chased and skinned alive if you tried to buy our guns for this sort of money quoted

Anything .25 British Classic Springer is RARE .
Others can tell you why .
And the high Prices are EXACTLY what others are paying now - both online and offline .
A boxed Stutzen .25 for a GRAND . Yes
Unboxed one - here on BBS £650
I could go on but you'l find out soon enough yur self - one day .

[flogger]

Well said sir i agree.
Ihave said before i have a .25 Stutzen rb2 mint in orig. carton with all its bits and pieces i have been offered £1000. for it but would not sell,the wife would only spend the cash on something useful. What i have got also is a boxed B.S.A. CENTENARY .22 minty condition with all its bits and pieces gun bag with handles and boxed, scope and mounts never fitted to gun. Would consider £1050.

[Gareth W-B]

Well said sir i agree.
Ihave said before i have a .25 Stutzen rb2 mint in orig. carton with all its bits and pieces i have been offered £1000. for it but would not sell,the wife would only spend the cash on something useful. What i have got also is a boxed B.S.A. CENTENARY .22 minty condition with all its bits and pieces gun bag with handles and boxed, scope and mounts never fitted to gun. Would consider £1050.

£1,000 for a .25 Stutzen which you say you turned down, and £1,050 for a complete Centenary kit in .22 (minty or not)? ... I've been on the collecting scene for a very long time, visit most of the collecting forums, regularly monitor ALL the leading Air Gun and aligned auctions on line, and imho, with reference to you potentially achieving those figures I have to say hmmmm, good luck with that (lol).


Ps. Ref the opening Q on this thread, I sold a near mint BSA 635 Magnum in .25 for £350 plus post late last year, and it took some serious advertising across the internet / gun press to realise this price, so there I believe is your realistic value -- give or take a few shekels (and plus post if not F2F ) ...

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[Jimny4x4]

£1,000 for a .25 Stutzen which you say you turned down, and £1,050 for a complete Centenary kit in .22 (minty or not)? ... I've been on the collecting scene for a very long time, visit most of the collecting forums, regularly monitor ALL the leading Air Gun and aligned auctions on line, and imho, with reference to you potentially achieving those figures I have to say hmmmm, good luck with that (lol).


Ps. Ref the opening Q on this thread, I sold a near mint BSA 635 Magnum in .25 for £350 plus post late last year, and it took some serious advertising across the internet / gun press to realise this price, so there I believe is your realistic value -- give or take a few shekels (and plus post if not F2F ) ...

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Well you must accept that these rarest classic British airguns are increasing in value as we speak . Only 1000 of the Centenary , only 100 - possibly less of , the .25 Stutzen - and most to export at that .
Even Protek had a bog standard .22 tap loader Stutzen at what seemed to me to be an ott price of over £580 ....it was gone the next day .
One member here offered me his Stutzen .25 for £650 .
One on that Free ads you obviously missed in your regular monitoring went for near £600 what looked like only 'good' condition and bought by a member
here .
A Centenary - no interest to me but people do pay up if all bits there .
For years these were underrated and sold off cheap , and no surprise that today that people are rediscovering them .
Mind even a 635 in minty condition - you did 'okay' to well at £350 .