I dont know if you would end up with a gun that is worth a lot more than you paid for it, but you would be in possession of one of the most important airguns ever made. It changed everything. I have a .22 Export HW35 which is genuinely a joy to shoot. A fantastic gun that you would enjoy, particularly if you bring it back from the brink.
Andy
Member, the Feinwerkbau Sport appreciation Society (over 50's chapter)
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Exactly as Andy has so eloquently stated.
It might only be worth a tad more than you paid for it once truly "mint", maybe £150-ish?
But, don't sell; keep it.
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The stocks make excellent fire wood and the rusty action superb for finishing off burglars
Or you could buy it, cherish it and shoot it
Pete
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in
Agree with Tony that cleaning it up probably only takes it to £150, but that’s based on £10 of oil and steel wool, and your free time.
At the risk of being picky, a cleaned up rifle will never be “mint”.
Mint means it is 100% perfect, untouched, unused, absolutely indistinguishable from the day it was made. The internet has devalued the term. A lot of stuff advertised as mint is actually in at best very good or excellent condition. A lot of stuff advertised as excellent is more like very good, or even good.
Unfortunately, there are differing (though not wildly differing) definitions used of mint/NIB/ANIB/excellent/very good/good/fair/poor/junk in the used goods/antiques/collectibles sphere, whether it’s guns or coins or anything else.. (Junk is not an accepted term, but ought to exist.). But mint means mint.
I have a number of older guns that are in really nice shape and superficially look like new. But really close examination will show small signs of use and wear. So they aren’t mint, they are excellent.