WTB: First Edition Handbook

[Colt Chopper]

Looking for a 1st edition handbook. Does not need to be mint condition, but cover must be legible.

I also have a couple different variations of the 3rd edition to trade, if that helps.

PM me if your looking to part with one.

Thanks

Edited April 6, 2023 by Colt Chopper

[Colt Chopper]

Still looking

[colt21a]

c.c.  that might be a lil hard one to locate.Have only seen 2 of those in fifty years. {And the one mint one i had sold it well over 10 years ago}.

i have had so many of all the other editions but the first one in print for some reason is never seen out there. Or those that have one. never want to sell it because they have not seen another, or the binding gone or writing inside the pages or tears.hopefully sold old collector who is selling out. will sell you his.One will turn up somplace.heck Nick or Tracie should have a extra i would think.take care RON K.

[rpbcps]

3 hours ago, colt21a said:

c.c.  that might be a lil hard one to locate.Have only seen 2 of those in fifty years. {And the one mint one i had sold it well over 10 years ago}.

i have had so many of all the other editions but the first one in print for some reason is never seen out there. Or those that have one. never want to sell it because they have not seen another, or the binding gone or writing inside the pages or tears.hopefully sold old collector who is selling out. will sell you his.One will turn up somplace.heck Nick or Tracie should have a extra i would think.take care RON K.

Ron,

Wow, only three of those in fifty years!

I have some thing in my collection rarer than I thought, I have two first edition handbooks, and I am not looking at selling them for the moment.
The first one I bought from a fellow collector in the UK, back in 2017. He had bought it from a member of this board, who confirmed to me, that he had purchased it from a book shop in Cork, Ireland.  It has no cover, but apart from that it is in pretty good nick.

The 2nd one, I stumbled upon on eBay.fr. last year. The seller was based in the UK and was clearing out his grandfathers affairs and found loads of firearm and artillery catalogs / brochures for early Vickers produced weapons . The grandfather had been an engineer at the Vickers Crayford factory in the UK, and had worked closely with their Drawing Department, from were he had obtained all of the catalogs / brochures in his collection.  It is a beauty, complete with the cover, so I made an offer, which was accepted.

A few months, later the same seller listed another catalog from the same source, an AOC Thompson Gun Model 1921-1923 Catalog , which like the 1st edition handbook, was in very good condition, so I made an offer for that, which was accepted and added to my collection.

Stay safe

Richard

Edited April 11, 2023 by rpbcps
added photos

[colt21a]

2 of those are real nice. I sold the mint new one still wrapped up in plastic at SAR show. I think the guy also bought a new crosby drum.and another guy bought a no date patent mag and a felt stock ring and New nickled 21 oiler. the reason he bought all it was all new.And said he needed it all for his nice 1921ac.

I had a ton of stuff that was mint or new including grips and some stocks. and probably hundreds today would not have had it if i did not sell it. well over a  two hundred pouch's, and dozens upon dozens of manuals. hunted stuff done for decades. thats how you end up with it. or if a collector had something i would just make offer to buy it all. as not {greedy} just wise.

Ask anybody out there who piled up a ton of stuff are they in rush to move it now? some will say no just looking at buying or upgrading more. Colt Chopper will turn up with one. just needs a collector who has 2 or 3  when i was hunting down spare parts kits had none and all of a sudden over 4. the one i had new in wax wrap i should have kept JUST TO STILL HAVE.

BUT HEY thats Life.  glad you did find the ones you did.Even the french got to dig up some stuff left in 1945 from the brits.

[rpbcps]

13 minutes ago, colt21a said:

2 of those are real nice. I sold the mint new one still wrapped up in plastic at SAR show. I think the guy also bought a new crosby drum.and another guy bought a no date patent mag and a felt stock ring and New nickled 21 oiler. the reason he bought all it was all new.And said he needed it all for his nice 1921ac.

I had a ton of stuff that was mint or new including grips and some stocks. and probably hundreds today would not have had it if i did not sell it. well over a  two hundred pouch's, and dozens upon dozens of manuals. hunted stuff done for decades. thats how you end up with it. or if a collector had something i would just make offer to buy it all. as not {greedy} just wise.

Ask anybody out there who piled up a ton of stuff are they in rush to move it now? some will say no just looking at buying or upgrading more. Colt Chopper will turn up with one. just needs a collector who has 2 or 3  when i was hunting down spare parts kits had none and all of a sudden over 4. the one i had new in wax wrap i should have kept JUST TO STILL HAVE.

BUT HEY thats Life.  glad you did find the ones you did.Even the french got to dig up some stuff left in 1945 from the brits

Ron,

I think that is what Richard Garcia is trying to do, "hunted stuff done for decades. thats how you end up with it". He does come up with some nice items to sell on. I bought the original AOC 1921 catalog in my collection from him, some years ago.

Those Stens may not have been left; thousands were air dropped for resistance forces during WW2. Many of which, no doubt, were kept as 'souvenirs', post 1945.

[Colt Chopper]

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[rpbcps]

As a postscript to my post dated April 11th 2023:

"first one I bought from a fellow collector in the UK, back in 2017. He had bought it from a member of this board, who confirmed to me, that he had purchased it from a book shop in Cork, Ireland.  It has no cover, but apart from that it is in pretty good nick".

I have been told that a lot of handbooks that went to Ireland in the early days, purposely had their covers removed to hide the contents of the handbook, from cursory checks.

 

[colt21a]

ITS OFF TO THE LAND OF THE GREEN AND THE SOUND OF A THOMPSON GUN...