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NICE PACKAGE AND DECENT RESTORE JOB. THAT SERIAL WOULD SELL IT FOR ME, UNIQUE.AND THE BOOKS HARDCASE, NOT MANY OUT THERE, AND OF COURSE OAK PARK.good luck on the sale.RON K.

That is one of the better cased sets I HAVE SEEN OFFERED AND SELL IN AWHILE.And i should know i had well over a 100 of them.as far as parts kits only ever had 6 total original. looks correct by what i can see, those who have owned more then 6 can chime in with the knowledge on them. seems after Gordones arrived.everybody became a expert. yet when i had one in 1975 they thought it was a fish hook box and line weights for fishing. times change.we have seen a lot over the past 50 plus years.And more guns will be offered. with all the extra items that have been put away for decades.nice gun nice story...RON K.

a made up gallery gun for pictures.or homemade zip guns.it could be anything. since the pic barely shows anything. like showa piece of wood officer. is it 1928 is it mia1 or is it made current today.or maybe kahr made sawmill scraps.barrel looks like 9mm to 45acpcocking handle looks dished some carbine added grip thing front end.maybe they bought them from CURTIS EARL, MAYBE STILL IN THE INVENTORY.LOOKS WOOD WITH METAL TYPE GRIP. and if thats a mag in one pic could be a 30 rd type. or could be marx toy for pictures.also is picture 50's era or 60s. they don't look like reisings. but as i said a bad pic for the guns to begin with

We had 2 tables easy to spot in sar building EASY TO SPOT WITH LARRYS SIGN it said liberal free zone would not let me post pic. are we using mini pictures now?

RON GLAD TO SEE YOU ARE ABOARD HERE.Have a handkerchief from Gordon also. that he gave to me well over 30 years ago.WELCOME TO THOMPSON MADNESS.

Yeah Bob i updated my post yesterday morn. if you read it, and said still for sale with a email from seller.I will get the numbers of those kits when he arrives at SAR show since his tables are right next to mine. So i guess Thompson world is saved once again...

As i see no update. but that sale ended it may be true they had 15 left and he bought them all.since after that date don't see them for sale.THEY MIGHT HAVE HAD A 100 OR SO LEFT and selling till all gone. Well maybe with his purchase they did. if so. I guess price can rise.Since if that source is now sold out. who will they buy from? the cleaning rods.still there. so guess more then 15 to go around.thanks for the ad info.update today monday got email from seller seems like they still have them to sell.so guess they will have them forever. in tommy world it never ends.RON K.

WELL MY BUDDY IN TOWN SAYS he just bought 15 kits and 15 cleaning rods and might have cleaned them all out. and says will bring to SAR show to see how they sell. If that is truth and that is the last of them all. I suppose price will go up someday. I sold the first few that Gordon had for me, years ago. but still have #292....R.K.

UNLESS EVERYTHING WAS UPDATED FOR 2025.when i was helping Gordon with the book with Chicago guns, rail road guns Cook county, Will county. and a bunch of other spots i went to Earls, Rogers, IRV, Harris,Cummings, AND MANY POLICE DEPTS. and other collectors in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Wisconsin, pre 1980 there was not some ton of guys doing Thompsons. as today some say oh thousands b.s. a couple dozen. many started up after the 90s, only issue i had i could not buy more Thompsons, i was out buying hundreds of other guns and collecting and buying other mg's at the same time...so had no time to do some running list. i was not doing some book. I was buying, selling, making contacts, and having fun. > in 1980 had my own company catalog. "ARM LTD" with not a Thompson to be seen. All modern mgs and semi stuff. Roger did not start his Book until 10 years after i went to see him and did business with him. Tracie did a great job on his first book. and in 1982 rogers is all anybody had. AND THE 1968 EARL CATALOG, AND THE M.G.M. STUFF.I GOT TO HANDLE THAT STUFF including the goofy MP40 FOR T.V.S. COMBAT. And did buy a m.g.m. Thompson. Gordon passed away by time i had the chance. to give him another list of 40 colts i had.> yep times marches on...A few OF US ARE STILL AROUND....that remember and did the early deals. nobody cares anymore. Only in the minds of the ones that did the hard work. yep i miss it.Glad we still have some books and pics to look at.

i CAN'T IMAGINE IF IN 1971 TILL AT LEAST 1980 THIS BOARD WAS AROUND AND I WAS POSTING ON IT WITH ALL THE STUFF.EVEN MY 1975/76 ADS FROM SHOTGUN NEWS. Yikes would i hear the tales and you can't do that is that gun real and a Colt's not worth $2,500 but i only had Earl and a few other guys to deal with.wow it was simpler times....

That is a very nice cut gun. and i am sure the internal parts are just as nice. if pivot plate has been removed they knew how to do it w/o messing it up and the frame area. MANY A NICE COLT looks like crap in that area due to stupidity and a screwdriver or knife tool. good luck for the future..RON K.

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Simple its a form 10 post sample gun if reassembled and welded back and that is always what it will be. and nothing more or less forget the license forms and ffl sot dd. bomb license. and old time registered on books. you have a box of parts that once was a functioning gun. thousands of that is out there. So sell it and buy a gun that's around. or box frame it and put on wall with pics of {Chip}Saunders. YOU ARE LIKE A HUNDRED OTHER GUYS WITH THEM OUT THERE. BUY A REAL DEAL. and you have a nice replace parts sets. as they all brag about. but most don't really break. {ask me how i know}since i retired from it in 2012 after 38 plus years as a ffl/sot. so my standing is diminished in the tommy boy club. Because i am not a current player. but yeah i have forgotten a few things about 1% over the past gun history. And most i did bizz with from 1971 on, are LONG gone.so take it for what that's worth. and for the pics you have shown very little, but it was a nice gun. good luck on the hunt for a complete shooting registered legit one. however blunt. I HAVE BEEN. enjoy the sport. RON K.

UNLESS MILLIONS OF BUCKS IS INVOLVED IT ALL MEANS NOTHING. putting some barrels together refinishing and whatever. and making blank guns which he said that is all over now.{ he said last one sold.} why worry about a letter from them.. Just go on to whatever you are doing. its not like a factory, and a line of employers building guns, drums and parts. if it ever was you would already have a attorney on retainer or working for you. so carry on Bob, life's too short to sweat over that. RON K.

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