1922 NRA/DCM Sales

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  • Johnny P
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2009
    • 6258

    #1

    1922 NRA/DCM Sales

    1922 price list from NRA/DCM

    Obsolete Ams:

    Springfield Rifle, Caliber .45 $1.25
    Springfield Rifle, Caliber .45 new $1.50
    Springfield Rifle, Caliber .45. cadet model $1.25
  • Lead Snowstorm
    Member
    • Jul 2019
    • 78

    #2
    Originally posted by Johnny P
    1922 price list from NRA/DCM

    Obsolete Ams:

    Springfield Rifle, Caliber .45 $1.25
    Springfield Rifle, Caliber .45 new $1.50
    Springfield Rifle, Caliber .45. cadet model $1.25
    I?ll take 1000!

    In seriousness, do we know if ?new? means those wonderful unissued late 1884s (i.e. the pristine 1889 cartouched guns floating around) or something else?

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    • Allen
      Moderator
      • Sep 2009
      • 10580

      #3
      My brother had a 1884 in practically new condition. He traded it for some other gun long ago. He got rid of the 1884 because it would blow the rim off the cartridge case every time it was fired. I guess it may have been one of those new ones that never got issued or never used because of the problem.

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      • Dick Hosmer
        Very Senior Member - OFC
        • Aug 2009
        • 5993

        #4
        I believe the minty 1889-dated stuff represents items put aside, or already in storage, when the rod-bayonet rifles were issued. Some of them might have been sold in the '20s, but even those would have SOME wear by now. Bob Hill told me, many years ago, that brand-new crates were still being opened into the early 1950s. My example is basically as new.

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