Colt 1921a Kit On Sturm

[1921 Gangsta]

http://www.sturmgewehr.com/webBBS/nfa4sale....cgi?read=86253

 

 

To bad they had to http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/nutkick.gif the receiver

[philasteen]

It's my kit, and it sold fast. Four "I'll take it" responses by the time I woke up today.

[philasteen]

It went for the asking price. I guess I should have asked more.

 

For posterity's sake on the next kit, here was my ad:

 

WTS: Colt 1921A Thompson parts kit, from a 6xxx gun on a Form 10. The gun sat in a PD vault since its purchase in 1927. Unfortunately it was registered in 1973 and not a few years earlier, and as a result is not transferable.

 

The gun itself shows minimal wear, finish is very nice. Has later style lower, correct internals, original wood (anchor on stock) and 21A (no comp) barrel.

 

If parted out this would go for 20-30% more than I'm asking, complete parts kits are rare and even rarer in this condition. Price is $6995.

[colt21a]

at least the history of the gun will be preserved in other's{ gun's}.. sad it had to be destroyed. and if you did get what you wanted no need for more.

 

remember you did the collector a service offering him his part's he needed badly. no more no less!

 

end of story....... R.Ron

[philasteen]

That's very true Ron, but I still hated to kill the gun. It felt like murder.

 

Saddest part is there is one more identical (even nicer) gun still in the PD vault, same situation. Great history on the guns - they were bought because of problems with rum runners during prohibition (this is a beach town). The third one is in a museum.

 

I tried to arrange to get the local library to display one but the PD chief vetoed it due to security concerns.

[kilroyjones]

Please educate a poor man from a non-MG state....

 

Why couldn't the gun be transferred to a dealer as a trade-in or dealer's sample? I

[Arthur Fliegenheimer]

$7K for everything minus the receiver is absolutely Costco pricing. Considering what individual Colt TSMG parts command, finding a complete set priced far below what the individual pieces would add up to is collector paradise. What is a head scratch are the prices for ancillary TSMG paraphernalia such as cases, rods, pouches, boxes, literature, etc.

[philasteen]

Arthur, just curious, how would you have broken down the value of the parts?

 

Barrel

Wood

Lyman

Bolt/blish assmebly

Actuator

Lower

[Arthur Fliegenheimer]

Barrel- type 1921A : $2000

Wood- vertical foregrip, frame grip, stock : $2000

Lyman- $500

Bolt/blish assembly- $1500

Actuator-early 1921 type with recessed front: $1500

Lower-late markings: $1500

 

Take $500 from here, add there?

[FireMerc]

In a situation like this could the receiver be donated to a museum, at least that would hurt less than the chop saw?

[FireMerc]

I understand, I would not want the whole gun donated either because than the parts are out of circulation as well. But since unfortunately the receiver had no value on the street I thought at least this might be preserved.

[Waffen Und Bier]

I hate to see that, but it's like what I keep telling my wife and Greg about saving cats all the time. You can't save them all. I used to be tempted as a CLEO to buy such things just to keep them from being destroyed. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/cop.gif That way I wouldn't have to use my personal ones to let visitors pose with for photos, display, let officers and citizens shoot, etc.

 

Plus CLEO is a tenuous position. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/nutkick.gif Here today, gone tomorrow. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/buttkick.gif Then who knows what would happen to those guns. http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/sad.gif