Consecutive Serial number firearms value

[Viper49]

What is the fair value for a consecutive serial number firearm, 5 or 10 percent?

Gone to an estate sale, found two Newly manufacture Winchester 1886 (Miroku) saddle ring carbine with consecutive serial number. The seller asking $3600 for the pair. Is this fair price?

[200Apples]

Sounds like a cool find!

MSRP for a new 24" Miroku Winchester 1886 is $1449.99

Unless they also have not just their "box n' docs" but a well-made, wooden display case containing both rifles and perhaps with some story or theme to go along with them, what's the value of two consec serial numbered firearms? Beats me.

It's what a buyer would pay.

[200Apples]

What is the fair value [increase] for a consecutive serial number firearm, 5 or 10 percent?

Fwiw, I paid what was then retail for 2009 in 2017 for two consecutive-serial-numbered 5-1/2" Ruger New Model single action flat top Blackhawks in .44 Special. Their blued finish had been compromised from being laid against a sheet of bubble pack plastic and in the Ruger hard plastic case where the cases had been exposed to some small amount of water or a very high duration of high humidity... they look fine from a short distance but up close one can see the mottled finish of the blueing from the damp plastic over whatever length of time it was (eight years?)...

No matter to me because at the time as well as today I didn't buy them for any other reason than to shoot them. A lot.

[The Gleam]

Guns that are more utilitarian AND rare, that you just happen to also find in consecutive serial numbers of the same model, fetch a higher percentage of sale-price consideration for that reason alone - than do commemorative or special set pieces (like highly polished consecutive serial number Colt Government & Colt Commander sets) intentionally sold in that manner by manufacturers.

It's primarily because it was luck of the draw that they were purchased or found consecutively at all - a much more rare circumstance to come upon.

I kind of have a thing for consecutive serial number paired guns that were not intended to be a set, especially if they were obscure military surplus.

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[sigstroker]

If you pay a collector price, you won't want to shoot them.

[Fjold]

Two consecutive serial numbers don't add anything except sentimental value if you give them to your kids or something and unless they are a NIB set of Colt single action revolvers from the 1800's or something like that.

I have a gun that is serial number 0005 and I shoot the heck out of it.

[The Gleam]

Two consecutive serial numbers don't add anything except sentimental value if you give them to your kids or something and unless they are a NIB set of Colt single action revolvers from the 1800's or something like that.

I have a gun that is serial number 0005 and I shoot the heck out of it.

From my own collection I have a few examples - such as it is, they are examples of only a few hundred to a thousand guns made of a certain model, that was never intended to become a 'collectors' item, nor ever sold in pairs in the first place, and yet the pair are from a limited production run that just also happen to be consecutive serial numbered; it adds a bit of quaintness and rarity to the pair.

Such may be the case for a pair of Semmerling LM4s, US&S 1911s, or S&W Model 50s.

Ironically, at the other end of the spectrum is to have a very common military surplus guns thst saw action, like a Springfield 1903, Garand, or Beretta M9 and yet you have a pair that are consecuitve serial numbers; the odds of that happening are very low unless they were intentionally set aside and stored together for a paired sale one day.

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[Nihonto Chicken]

I kind of have a thing for consecutive serial number paired guns that were not intended to be a set, especially if they were obscure military surplus.
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Ironically, at the other end of the spectrum is to have a very common military surplus guns thst saw action, like a Springfield 1903, Garand, or Beretta M9 and yet you have a pair that are consecuitve serial numbers; the odds of that happening are very low unless they were intentionally set aside and stored together for a paired sale one day.
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Here's your chance! Well, depending on the size of your wallet.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/940352708

Not likely this pair saw any action, save what will occur in this auction. Let us know if you grab the brass ring!

[The Gleam]

Here's your chance! Well, depending on the size of your wallet.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/940352708

Not likely this pair saw any action, save what will occur in this auction. Let us know if you grab the brass ring!

I had that auction bookmarked within 5 minutes after it posted on Sunday night!!

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[DolphinFan]

[The Gleam]

And what if the numbers start at some random number like 6550 such as is the case for various Luger production/contract runs, or manufacturers that started at higher numbers so as not to appear low production? ( The Whitney Wolverine comes to mind ).

Sometimes a certain series of numbers are rare within a small range of serial numbers for various reasons, a certain contract, troop, order lot, production under duress, a series that was supposed to be destroyed - and a consecutive pair from that series would make it even more rare in coincidence or chance.

Nothing is always black and white, or 1 and 2.

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[LynnJr]

Consecutive serial numbers always adds value wether you like it or not doesnt really matter as somebody will spend the money for it.

[Viper49]

Just to want to clarify, these two Winchester 1886 is the saddle ring carbine, there MSRP is 1629.99. Then is the 1886 saddle ring carbine more collectible then the standard rifle?

[JohnCCW]

Just to want to clarify, these two Winchester 1886 is the saddle ring carbine, there MSRP is 1629.99. Then is the 1886 saddle ring carbine more collectible then the standard rifle?

New Miroku Winchester collectible? Maybe in 100 years. Give it to a grandkid.
They are well made guns, generally better quality than std. Winchester factory product.

[M1NM]

The only way I could see a boost in value if the 2 guns were ordered together by someone famous and/or each had different features. Such as one without the saddle ring, different barrel length, Marble sights - of course all backed up by a factory letter.
Now that all goes out the window if those were "real" 1886 guns and the factory letter shows the pair was bought and shipped to the sheriff of Tombstone shortly before the Clanton's showed up.