Hand cut checkering, and metal to wood fit, and an english style straight stock all suggest an expense fedgov would not have tolerated in those days. If the bore has even the least indication of pitting, I would not fire it. It's value will not change if it is not fired. However, It is a...
You can open a UPS account, and for $7, they will come and pick it up. Will save most of us time and money...and the possible aggravation of getting the wrong agent behind the UPS counter, i.e. one that is clueless about FFL's.
Price it right for the current economic conditions (full monetary collapse in progress-just has'nt reached the avalanche phase) and it will sell. "Collectables" have always traded on the "greater fool" theory. I have been in the same boat: there was a greater fool than myself out there, just...
Do not worry about dollar value, using the USD as a measure of value is like using a rubber/elastic tape rule to measure length. If you like it after reasonable prudence, I say trade away.
Like any presumed collectable, there is a downside: When one becomes a "don't-wanter" and there is no "greater fool" out there that wants what you have and is willing to pay enough that you have a profit or break even, one will learn all about the downside. This is especially true in a...