Colt .380 Government Model Series 80
Friend of mine got these from a relatives estate. No paper work or documentation, consecutive serial numbers, RC00498 & RC00499, says Series 80 First Edition on booth of them. They are unfired, I don't think the case is a Colt case.
The Blue Book list the .380 Government Model Series 80, but doesn't list these. We need a realistic value. Don't need a start em at a penny answer. These are a bit out of my small area of knowledge.
The Blue Book says $725 each for the blue series 80s.
Thanks for looking.
W.D.
The Blue Book list the .380 Government Model Series 80, but doesn't list these. We need a realistic value. Don't need a start em at a penny answer. These are a bit out of my small area of knowledge.
The Blue Book says $725 each for the blue series 80s.
Thanks for looking.
W.D.
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One NIB just sold over on the colt forum for $850.
Not much call for matched sets of those guns, so I'll guess about
$2000 for the pair.
But it might be easier to sell each one separate as much as that seems to be a shame.
http://www.coltforum.com/forums/want-sell/92969-sold-first-edition-colt-mark-iv-series-80-380-a.html0 -
Special edition Modern cased pairs don't do well in the marketplace, in my limited experience. I had a Texas Ranger cased pair, SAA .45 and Frontier Scout .22. I would have to go and look up the sale price, but I remember that it was disappointing.
So, were I buying a modern Colt cased pair, I would figure the value for one, then times two, then subtract about 25%.0 -
Thanks for the help. I figured about $800-$850 per gun, two of them means $16-$1700, one at time or both.
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Didn't those Colts come from Lou Horton ?
They should be a fairly easy sell a 8 each.0 -
Blue Book does list them in the Commemoratives section.
1984 1st Edition Govt. Model .380 ACP. S/N range RC00000-RC01000.
1000 were made and value listed as $850. Issue price $4250 -
The best way to tell the value of them, would be to put them on the block, starting at a penny, and advertise the hell out of them.
I like them, but IMHO, Colt really dropped the ball on these models, by not having the grip safety included.
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