Quote Originally Posted by scoots View Post
Ok that's a good summary ..once mint and sorted , what sort of value could I put against it thanks
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.