steyr 1911
Recently someone approached me asking if I wanted to buy there Steyr 1911 dated 1918. Apparently it one of their relatives brought it back from war.They are asking $200 for it. Can you tell me if this is a good price for it?
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what is a steyr 1911 in 9mm worth ? its in prob 80% cond .this is the gun you used stripper clips too load it.thanks don 0 -
The Steyr Hahn is a fairly difficult pistol to price. There have been
many previous imports, that sold for $150.00 and were not worth the price. I sold a WW1 Vet bring back last year for what I consider top dollar. This one was documented, 96% strong blue-zero pits, 100% straw, mint grips, mint polished steel components, mint bore, with the original holster for $1,400.00. That was top dollar in my opinion.
Just my input. 1010 -
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don, 101airborne's $150 value is pretty close to the real world for an 80% Steyr- maybe up to $200 if it is NOT an import and includes a holster. Here is the real life situation: These pistols are only of interest to collectors, folks don't buy them to shoot because ammo is expensive and hard to come by in this country. I think Norma and Fiocchi still load this cartridge as it can be sold in Europe as an "obsolete military cartridge" and sold in countries where the 9mm Luger is prohibited. A few US manufacturers also chamber pistols in this caliber for export sales.
As a result ammo will sell here for more than most folks are willing to pay to shoot one of these relics of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In all honesty these were not bad pistols and the locking mechanism was extremely strong. By the time the Steyr arrived on the scene, most militarys had already decided on other handgun types so sales were limited to Romania and Chile, in addition to the quater million or so manufactured for the Austrian armed forces. There were some commercial sales as well and those pistols will be marked "Osterreichsce Waffenfabrik Steyr M1911 9mm" as opposed to the simple Steyr marking of the military pistols.
As you can gather these pistols are not really rare and as a result collectors are interested in only the better examples. 80% does not earn collector status unless the firearm is VERY rare and desireable. There are simply too many pistols in that 80% condition range and it drives down values. Import marked firearms are also shunned by serious collectors- those import stamps are the kiss of death to many folks- most won't touch an import unless it is near perfect...and even then they'll be looking for an non import example to replace it ASAP.
Unless your Steyr is either a non import military model, a commercial pistol, one of the military pistols adopted by Chile or Romania, or one of the German 9mm Luger re-works- and marked as such, 101airborne's price would seem about right. His $1400 Steyr was exceptional, but like my old boss (God rest his soul) used to tell me: "Mark, you just can't spend too much money on a PERFECT gun. If is really is perfect, people will just envy you because you can afford to but the very best". Words to live by for new collectors...in my opinion.
Mark T. Christian0
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