Browning High Power World War II commemorative

[tazman]

A local gun shop has this pistol, new in the case, never fired, never been touched by ungloved hands, for sale.
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The picture is not of the particular gun but of one just like it. I didn't have my camera with me.
Absolutely beautiful
I don't know what these are worth but they had it for sale. $2200 at the time.

[MtGun44]

Nice, but I won't buy a gun I won't shoot and that is not for shooting, it is
for looking.

Bill

[bouncer50]

It like having a model a 10+ for my wife. No fun if you jest want to look at her. I like to touch and play with my girl. Same with my guns no fun just to look at them they were made to be used.

[C. Latch]

I love BHPs. I just can't justify safe queens. Guns have no real investment value until you sell them. I hate selling them, so the pile of 'safe queens' I already own are something of a half-blessing, half-curse.

[bruce drake]

A Browning HP is a blessing to shoot. putting one behind glass is an evil curse.

[seaboltm]

That is certainly asking price. I wouldn't pay half that. And I have some very, very expensive guns. Those types of examples are produced in mass. Thin gold plating on a $400 gun (at the time) with $75 worth of machine driven engraving/art work. Add a case and paper work: $75 more. Translate to today's prices: $950. This type of gun really appeals to WWII vets (bless their souls, they are mostly gone) or their immediate sons/daughters (who are not young). Just my thoughts. The selling point of a mass produced gun like this is to appeal to emotion. Once the emotion is all dead, the value will drop to the same as any other hi-power, within a few dollars. It is the Franklin Mint of guns.

[MakeMineA10mm]

That's more expensive than a real WWII Browning Hi-Power with the WaA stamp and eagle the Nazi's put on them after they took over the FN factory in Belgium.

Myself, I'd rather have the real, present-in-WWII Browning to that gold-plated safe-queen. But that's just me. :)

[44 Special]

WWII is over, we won. I'd pass on that Browning HP.
Buy one you can shoot.

[Tackleberry41]

Yea I never understood the whole commemorative, put it behind glass thing. I like BHP alot, mine is just a Argentina copy, but works just as good as a real one. Friend went to sell 2 an uncle had, safe queen, NIB guns. He got a pretty penny for them. Again I dont collect guns, if its not going to be fired then dont really have any need for it. You bought that fancy one, 1 rd thru it and half its value is gone.

[tazman]

Oh, I haven't purchased it and have no intention of doing so. I don't care for safe queens I can't shoot either.
It is a nice looking gun though.
The only reason I purchase stainless steel is that my perspiration is highly corrosive due to the job I held. A plain blued gun will rust within 90 minutes if I get a drop of sweat on it. After 2 days my fingerprints are there permanently if not wiped down almost immediately after I handle one.

I just thought some one might be interested in it.
Apparently I was mistaken.