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81 mm German Mortar

kewo
Hello! i Just got a German 8cm Mortar - full case all eqipent red & white colored sticks for "innshoting/ aiming/measurment" (dont know the english word for it) - - optics and googles ect. it is in exelent condition and ready to fire-

what can it be worth?

In my contry anyone can buy a Mortar - thou theese are hard to get-
i have searched the web for info but cant find anyone who sell/buy - i guess it is not legal in most contries
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  • mark christian
    Hello and welcome to the forums. Gun Broker is a US based site and in this country items like functional mortars are heavily restricted, in fact they re the second most heavily restricted items ranking just below machine guns. While it is possible to own a live mortar in the USA, the restrictions are so heavy that there is very little market for these items here. A surplus German mortar would have needed to be registered in the USA in or before 1968 and there are so few registered and the market so limited that there is no accurate pricing for a live registred example, although it would certainly be worth a few thousand dollars to a dealer. Mortars which have been deactivated can be sold with the same rules as a functional firearm, but they are incapable of firing shells...Or anything for that matter. These are sometimes found priced at under $1000. Mortars which have been totally demilitarized are basically scarp and are sold as curios for a few hundred dollars or less.
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  • rufe-snow
    Unless it was registered with the BATF unit of our treasury dept. prior to Dec. 1968, it wouldn't be legal to sell in the U.S. Because of this it's hard to put a value on it. Do to the very limited number of legally registered Mortars in private hands, it would be quite valuable in the U.S.
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  • kewo
    Thanks for the info.

    Still no way for me to find out the price thou.. as "quite valuable" is a relative term ;)

    Im making a new topic of another gun i have at hand. "37 mm Cannon from P40 fighter"
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  • mark christian
    quote:Originally posted by kewo
    Thanks for the info.

    Still no way for me to find out the price thou.. as "quite valuable" is a relative term ;)



    It it were legally registered it would probably be worth about $5000. Since it is not registered and cannot be registered it has virtually no value beyond the information that I already provided to you. None of these items that were not imported into the Untied States and registered prior to November 1968 are legal to own and posses in this Country. As a result anything sitting overseas has virtually no value here because it can not be imported for sale. Completely demilitarized it might be worth a couple of hundred dollars.

    Being a world traveler myself I understand that there may be some communication issues here, but you need to understand that a mortar sitting in Norway is of no value here in the United States because it cannot be imported into the United States. Had it been imported and registered 42 years ago you'd have something valuable...As it is now it is virtually worthless here.
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  • jonk
    quote:Originally posted by kewo
    Thanks for the info.

    Still no way for me to find out the price thou.. as "quite valuable" is a relative term ;)

    Im making a new topic of another gun i have at hand. "37 mm Cannon from P40 fighter"
    That's probably from a P-39, not a P-40. The P-40 was armed with .30 caliber and .50 caliber machine guns, while the P-39 also included a cannon. [:)]
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  • kewo
    many thanks for the awnsers :)

    sorry the misstake of p40 instead of 39 :)

    The 5000$ is helpfull as i get some sort of value..

    kevin
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  • mark christian
    Just remember that teh $5000 value is based on the extremely limited number of such items that were legally imported and registered here in the United State before 01 November, 1968. There has not been a German mortar legally imported or registered for private sale here in the USA in 42 years so your mortar is not even worth a fraction of that amount here in the USA. It would be in fact virtually worthless and totally illegal to own or possess in this country.
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  • elubsme
    If you want to see a really big mortar, google karl morser. They had to use a crane to load it. Ed
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