Price check on a Civil War Spencer repeater

[MILSURP Collector]

Looking at one and trying to find market value. Anyone know?

 

[StuP]

I imagine condition is a huge factor, any proven military association as well. Rifle or carbine ?

 

[Gimli2]

Devil is in the details... if you have a correct example with provenance, thousands of dollars. If it isn't, a few hundred. We need pics and details (and quite likely an expert, which I'm not).

 

[MILSURP Collector]

Carbine in average to good condition. Will try to post pics soon.

 

[palmettomoon]

I'd have to think that in good to excellent (shootable) condition it'd be somewhere in the $1,800 - $3,500 range depending on lots of things. I've been surprised over the years at the tiniest details in variable condition that can drive a common $1,200 rifle to multiple thousands. To the untrained eye, they look almost the same.

Can you buy ammunition for that any longer? I'm having to nitrate paper for the cartridges I load in the New Model of 1863 Sharps I bought a couple of months ago.

 

[MILSURP Collector]

I think I've seen videos of people making rounds for it.

https://www.google.com/#q=spencer+ammo+for+sale&spf=1499005031399

Seller posted it as Caliber .52

 

[MILSURP Collector]

Think I found the answer

From Wikipedia.

Cartridge .56-56 Spencer rimfire
Caliber .52 in (13 mm)
Action Manually cocked hammer, lever action
Rate of fire 14 or 20 rounds per minute[5]
Muzzle velocity 931 to 1,033 ft/s (284 to 315 m/s)
Effective firing range 500 yards[6]
Feed system 7 round tube magazine

 

[MILSURP Collector]

I saw that one recently sold for $1,810.51

 

[MILSURP Collector]

It sold for $1,635 a bit too high for my blood. Thanks for all the input. Maybe next time.

 

[spencer60]

It's all about the name... LOL.