Tell me more, never seen that stuff.
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Commemorative .32-40, a special run of nickel plated cased ammunition. There were also nickel .38-55s made. The were for the "Duke" commemorative Winchester 94s that were made in these calibers. I think it was back in the 1980's.
Ammunition in either of these calibers had not been made in years, and, all of a sudden, there it was.
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My perfect hindsight causes me so much grief.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same......." - Ronald Reagan
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived." - George Patton
The second amendment is a nail on which hangs a picture of freedom - member Alex 4x4 Tver, Russia
Those empty nickel-plated shells are not exactly worthless by themselves. My box contained empty shells, and I found a bunch more of the same type loose and was glad to get them to shoot with.
I imagine there is "collector value" in an unfired box, but liquidity would be the problem. A guy with a Commemorative rifle (in an unopened box) would want one unopened box of cartridges to go with the rifle. After he is satisfied, finding a collector for the next box of ammo might be harder than finding the box was.
Me, I dunno. I'm not a "collector," just an "advanced accumulator." It's not my fault that the books I bought to read, the guns I bought to tinker and play with and the ammo I stashed away for future needs is now in the "Don't do that--you'll destroy its Collector Value!" category.
Maybe they show up at auctions, but IME this oft-cited Collector, so willing to pay Big Bucks for something I shouldn't be messing with, is as rare a trophy as a 300-lb elephant.
Nice! actually I think that dates back to the 1980's when the commemorative rifle came out. A local gunshop here ended up with a bunch of that ammo back then and was selling at at $7.50 a box so I bought about $50 worth. I turned 1 box into .30-30's, kept another and about 10 years ago sold the rest for about $25 a box as I recall....
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I had a mint box of the Duke 38-55 ammo, sold it last summer.
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When I bought a used CPA 32-40, there were 4 mint boxes of the Wayne Comparatives included in the transaction for free
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Just for reference, there was an unopened box each of .32-40 and .38-55 John Wayne ammo for sale at the last Gun Show I attended. It was going for $80 a box. Going, but not gone.
I sold my box a couple of years ago for $46.00.
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