You can always try to find one for less. Or any other one for any price for that matter. May not be a Cossack, but it is very, very uncommon.

 

Gunbroker prices are crazy. I offered him $500 for it and that was it. No more for it. Just keep looking,stuff like this is what makes me check every Mosin at gunshows haha.

 

You mean he refused 500 for a rifle he got 770 for???! Madness I say!

Price is a measurement, like a bathroom scale as PJ ORourke used to say. Doesn't matter what number you think it should read, it matters what it is. Because these are so scarce, someone is going to pay a certain price when they do pop up. As a 41 Tula owner, I'm happy with it.

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It is worth what people are willing to pay for it.

Pahtu.

 

`41 Tulas are nice but not $770 nice; at least not for me. That kind of coin can get someone into a 28-30 with money left over for a spam can(s).

 

I've seen the high bidder win some of the gray blanket specials. He must have deep pockets and a pretty cool, if expensive gun collection by now.

 

I don't think the they all are worth $770, today. Just that one, at this time. I would add that a fair auction is a fair auction. But another one might only reach $500 if offered today. Still a fair chunk of change, for a scarce item. Still hoping for one for myself, someday. AND... I could be wrong. Where do you find them? Not everywhere.

Yes, the particular buyer has some nice stuff. He has snagged many uncommon items, across a wide range of collecting interests. Albeit a collection that costs much more than usually accepted market value. Man, he'll pay ANYTHING if he wants it. I know....

... been outbid by hundreds, many times over. But wow, he must have a suite full of rare guns.

 

Probably some Russian oligarch shipping them to his private island gunroom. I would!

 

Is the font of the date normal for these 1941 dated rifles (the fact that the 1 in thousands place if different from the 1 in the ones place). Have other 1940's been seen with this same font pattern? This is the only '41 that I've seen so I don't have any pic to do a comparison.

 

Is the font of the date normal for these 1941 dated rifles (the fact that the 1 in thousands place if different from the 1 in the ones place). Have other 1940's been seen with this same font pattern? This is the only '41 that I've seen so I don't have any pic to do a comparison.

yes and yes

 

Asian sorry to get off point from your question.

Here are pictures of a recently imported M91/30. The 1938 Tula date has a different font type than the font on the odd 41 stamp. sniperfreak do you think this 41 stamp had been applied at Izhevsk?

 

Well, I am waiting on the 1941 Tula/Izh both markings just purchased. This will go well with my 7 triple date MO's, Quad date MO, and my two XO's. I remember my M1 carbine collection I sold off in 1994, Would be worth a small fortune with the line-outs, buff-outs, and all the transferred receivers. Think I sold 25 carbines for about 40K in 94. For some of you older collectors, they were displayed at the Dixon Louisville show a couple of times.

 

I agree, I wouldn't pay that much either but it was just an eye opener to see the final price of it, I was watching it when it was a lot lower and thinking about bidding on it. It just amazed me that the 1941 Tula sold for more than $200 over the 1919 I purchased recently. I'm happy the 1919 didn't sell for that high!

 

As the owner of two 1919 Tula M91's (and zero '41 Tula 91/30's), I can see why it sold for more. I've seen well over a dozen '19 Tula M91's pictured on this forum over the last couple of years. I've seen only three or four '41 Tula 91/30's over that same span.
Those '41's are a TOUGH hole to fill. Kido's to the winner!

 

Collectors are a weird breed - I have paid less for more and more for less - Year of production....Hmmmm I do believe there are dozens of collectors here who have collected years of Mosin production..... 700 some odd bucks is a small price to pay if that year is missing from the ole collection.....

1943 VKT M39s come to mind.....another hen's tooth....

Lately the SA 1944 91-30 has eluded me.....Interesting year of production

Pahtu.

 

Well, if you compare it to all the other '41 Tulas for sale.....oh....wait a minute......

 

Why are the two "1"s in the 1941 date stamp of a different font? Why are all the serial numbers apparently double struck? Why are there indentations on the receiver below the last "1" in the date stamp?

 

Most of the Tula barrels were shipped east to Izhevsk and then fitted with Izhevsk receivers (or so the story goes). That being the case, then I would imagine that Izhevsk had to "mesh" things with their own inventory system.