Let's see how try #2 goes. After all that work on putting up the single Albanian gun for March, I may have bitten off more than I can chew trying to get these two Romys up in this post!! chuckles1
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Item Number Auction Page Description # Bids Final Price Year Arsenal Condition Current Condition RM's Notes
472492448 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=472492448 1958 Romanian SKS EC Matching russian chinese yugo 11 $426.00 1958 Refurb Good Replacement stock, mismatched bolt. Considering the paucity of Romy's in this list and the 11 bids on this item, I'd be hard-pressed to say this was a bad deal. Still, a matching, fair condition gun with a proper sling could be had for this price if one is patient.
473744439 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=473744439 1959 Russian SKS Rifle w/ Bayonet- All Matching 15 $580.00 1959 Refurb Very Good I was going to comment "Man, I've never seen a '59 Russian...Let me at it!" Alas it's just a '59 Romy. It's a nice one albeit. Stock is a replacement or at least has been reworked with a horizontal S/N. Someone needs to pull that commercial Chinese sling off and put on a nice Romy leather dog collar style before LC has an aneurism though.
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472492448 http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=472492448 1958 Romanian SKS EC Matching russian chinese yugo 11 $426.00 1958 Refurb Good Replacement stock, mismatched bolt. Considering the paucity of Romy's in this list and the 11 bids on this item, I'd be hard-pressed to say this was a bad deal. Still, a matching, fair condition gun with a proper sling could be had for this price if one is patient.
You must have a thing for bent barrels and refinished stocks. rofl
Romanian analysis:
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I want another Romanian. cry1q
Those prices seem pretty high to me, are they? Reason I ask is that the gun I bought, even though NONE of the numbers match, it has a freak bolt carrier, and is missing the cleaning rod and sling, was a lot lower $ than these. Is there $150 - $300 dollars difference if it has matching numbers?
There is certainly a price difference between an as-issued or even a refurbished Romanian and a mixmaster like you described. If I saw something with a modified bolt carrier on GB, I would likely classify it in the Bubba category. As a shooter it's probably just fine, but the collectable value is pretty low and it would only fill a spot in a collector's collection until a nicer specimen came along.
Now is the spread between a bubba shooter and a refurb romanian $300? I'd guess closer to $100-$150 myself, but that's where all the criteria that make any particular gun valuable come in. There are lots of different criteria that determine price: rarity, arsenal condition, current condition, that particular type of gun's reputation, how it fit's into a collector's niche, and finally what part of the country it's being sold in. Also note that we only have a sample size of two guns this month. Hopefully more Romanians show up in April and the numbers become more representative of reality.
I agree with you though, I think the $580 gun was extremely high. The $426 gun I think was right in line though.
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