Quote Originally Posted by 45flint View Post
I find it very believable that those production numbers are entirely bogus. Given there are no serial numbers I think you could probably use sampling statistics to probably estimate a number. How many of these do you see in a year for sale? As one example, how many Sheridan SuperGrades do you see for sale in a year? How many of both do you see at guns shows? I have followed both guns pretty closely in the last several years. We know how many Sheridans were made, several thousand. In the last 2 years it would have been much easier for me to buy a Supergrade than a T&C. Of course there could be many factors going on: the high value and reputation of a Super Grade may bring more out of the woodwork? But if there were really 75,000 made I have no doubt you would see many more surface. 5000 would be more believable to me and I would bet my money that is too high.
Could easily be less than a thousand or so. It was, from what we know, a disaster at retail. Just too expensive. Crosman actually dumped their remaining stock to a Chicago wholesale house, they (the wholesale house) sold them off for something like $10.

I came across 2 model 107, which really do seem to ultra rare, rather early in the process. One was the find of a lifetime, it was at a super antique mall in Davenport, Iowa (home of the Brown Pneumatic) and I figured there would be an outside chance of a Brown showing up at an antique mall, well, a TC was found instead. Spotted it from a distance. Up close I could see that it was .177 caliber. It was in wonderful condition. Slowly turned over the price tag..... after seeing so many stupid prices on airguns I didn't want to be devastated ...... $35.00. Asked for and received a 15% professional discount. Ended up selling it at some point and then no more TC's came around. Had to wait for the Myron Kasok auction to finally get another one.

Collecting note: the 1949 Town and Country Sr. model is distinguished by the butt plate which has the Crosman Arms round logo but is otherwise smooth. This plate breaks very easily. Setting it down on a hard surface and crack it goes. The condition of the butt plate figures significantly in the value. I would deduct at least a $100 off the value for a missing or broken original butt plate. There were never any spares in the Crosman Repair system for this part so it can't be replaced.