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Antique 22 Ammo for Sale?

maddburke
I have a brick of Remington 22 Long Rifle hollowpoint ammo, in the Red, Green and White boxes. It's missing 1 pack of 50 rounds. It was purchased by my dad, believe it was in the 1960s. Lot # seems to be W11K1E on inside flap of the boxes. Is this stuff old enough to generate an interest from buyers? What's the easiest way to sell it? I can't ship directly to buyer, so I need to take to FFL dealer and let them ship it?
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  • fergusonmorse392
    List for sale here on GunBroker.
    You do NOT need an FFL but you should require Proof of Age(21) and you must ship it by UPS.
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  • Rafter-S
    When I did gunshows, I ended up with a large amount of ammo made back in the 40's, 50's and 60's. All calibers and in mint condition. I showed it to thousands of people and got virtually zero interest. Ended up selling it for what current ammo was selling for...and in some cases, for less. Sure taught me a lesson on selling ammo.

    Hope you can do better than I did.

    Rafter-S
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  • Iconoclast
    The HP makes this slightly more desirable to a collector than the standard RN. There are dozens of variations on the R/W/G color scheme and that has an effect on value, as does the condition of the boxes. In .22 boxes, except for extreme rarities, condition affects price far more than age. The only realistic way you are going to sell this is to a dealer, because the few collectors who accumlate bricks want full ones. Alternatively, you can attempt to sell them a box at a time . . . but the shipping charges will kill most interest unless this is one of the rare ones; collectors are not going to pay $6 - $12 in shipping for a single box of this vintage. Otherwise these are $2 - $5 gun show items, and the bulk of the sales will be well below the top limit. They are worth more than current production. If you can send me good, clear, close-up pix or scans of an individual box - top, bottom and an end flap, I can give you an idea of the value &/or forward the pix to guys who specialize in .22 boxes (both dealing and collecting) - my knowledge of this niche in collecting is limited. My advice would be to do this on the slight chance this is one of the less common varieties. If they are in pristine condition, displaying them at a gun show is a good way to degrade them in a hurry, as most in the firearms community have little respect for packaging IME - I even see people trying to sell boxes for top dollar *after* they've put all sorts of labels and markings on the boxes . . . kind of like dragging a pristine Colt SAA through a swamp for a month and then asking top dollar.

    "There is nothing lower than the human race - except the French." (Mark Twain)
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