I have a friend with a BSA 500, 12 ga O/U shotgun that he's tryin to find a approximate value on. Says it was bought sometime in the 1950's, and let's guess it at 90% for starters. Thanks!
No offense, but I think you will have to come up w/some pics first. I personally don't even know what a BSA 500 looks like, not that it means anything. There are numbers of guns I have no familiarity with. Who was it actually made by? That's saying pics of the proof marks too.
No offense taken at all. I know pics help a lot, but even if he sent some to me I have no idea how to post them, here or anywhere else. I was just hopin somebody would have a ball park guess on the value, don't even know if he wants to sell it...I think it was one of his Dad's guns. I gave him the link to this site, and to this thread, so maybe he'll show up and put up some pics. Other than that does anybody have a guess on the value of it?
BSA...isn't that Birmingham Small Arms?
I had a BSA 500, 1949 model it was a really nice motorbike........
I think that's right Sam.
Mike, I had a Norton 750 MANY years ago, never did get totally used to the shifter on the right and the brake on the left tho.
Appreciate the help skeettx. I'll let him know and he can take it from here. I couldn't find it in any of the books I have, or on gunbroker.
The BSA 441 Victor especially and the 650 Spitfire always got my heart strings thrummin'
I purposely left out any refs to the English M/C's, having owned and ridden more than a few. FWIW, the last BSA 441 Victor that I owned had a set of fancy Italian forks on it that started w/a 'C' and was still lookin' for a place to high-side itself, but wot caused my losing it to another individual who knew not squat about them, but was enamored w/it's pretty polished aluminium & yellow painted gas tank, was the last kickstarter pinion gear that I had to put in it at a cost [cost for the part alone, that's wholesale, not retail] in them days of $US 119.00 I have, to this day, a ganglion cyst on a tendon from another English bike [an Ariel 500] where it revolted at an inopportune moment and then had an AJS backfire under similar conditions at another time, just to be sure it took. My chosen Converse sneakers of the time provided zero protection from such excursions in bad timing. The 441 Victor's were prone to the the same antic's, except that they frequently broke the pinion gear as as result. And I could, but won't tell you some tales about ownership & riding older BSA Gold Stars [B34's] & doing hill climbs at places like Mineral Wells, TX in the late 50's & early 60's, but I shant.
Also: A-10 cranks in 650 unit constructed 650's made for some very competitive '650' flat trackers, that weren't quite 650's any longer, but that's a whole dif subject.
I still have no idea what a BSA 500 shotgun looks like.
Come on Texas boy!
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Did you NOT look at the links that I posted??
Pictures are there
Mike
Guilty as charged!
I'm having some nebulous 'puter issues in the present & cannot get your links to open, tho I do know exactly what an SKB 500 O/U looks like. I should have re-read the whole thread before I made that last remark. Shame on me!
Like an Ithaca 500 by SKB, or the fancier 600. Great guns.
If it weren't for foolish sentiment, I'd let everything go except for the SKB 20ga 500 o/u, Beretta 12ga 686 Silver Pigeon 1 o/u. Brno 7X57 circa 1950 (moose), Ruger 250-3000 (deer), Ruger .22 bull barrel. Possessions are a burden!