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<blockquote data-quote="Hangfire" data-source="post: 3649084" data-attributes="member: 27673"><p>I'd sell it and not disclose the guns history.</p><p></p><p>I worked a few years with a local gunsmith on Saturdays and one day just about closing a fella walked in and pulled a 4" blue S&W mdl. 29 out of a paper sack with the Norman PD paperwork that was in pretty sad shape all over cosmetically from still having spots of caked on blood, missing bluing and rust and ask JW what it was worth as is if he sold it........the fella said that the police had just released it to him the day before after his brother had committed suicide with it several months earlier and that he was going to sell it because he didn't want it around.</p><p></p><p>JW gave him prices on what he figured what it was worth as is and what he felt it would be worth if he invested the money to have it reblued........he ask JW if he would be interested in purchasing it, a price was agreed on and JW purchased it.</p><p></p><p>We disassembled the gun and hot blued it the following Saturday........because it had pitted pretty deep in several places from the blood we used a bead blast / matte finish as opposed to trying to buff out some of the deep pits and bring it back to a high gloss S&W finish. </p><p></p><p>JW gave it to a fella that was setting up at the gun show the following weekend and ask him to try and sell it for him.........the gun sold and the fella that bought it was none the wiser as far as the guns history went and was tickled to have it at the price he paid.</p><p></p><p>For my labor I was offered the gun at JW's cost but I declined the offer not because of the guns history but because at the time I already had a Super Blackhawk in .44 mag.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hangfire, post: 3649084, member: 27673"] I'd sell it and not disclose the guns history. I worked a few years with a local gunsmith on Saturdays and one day just about closing a fella walked in and pulled a 4" blue S&W mdl. 29 out of a paper sack with the Norman PD paperwork that was in pretty sad shape all over cosmetically from still having spots of caked on blood, missing bluing and rust and ask JW what it was worth as is if he sold it........the fella said that the police had just released it to him the day before after his brother had committed suicide with it several months earlier and that he was going to sell it because he didn't want it around. JW gave him prices on what he figured what it was worth as is and what he felt it would be worth if he invested the money to have it reblued........he ask JW if he would be interested in purchasing it, a price was agreed on and JW purchased it. We disassembled the gun and hot blued it the following Saturday........because it had pitted pretty deep in several places from the blood we used a bead blast / matte finish as opposed to trying to buff out some of the deep pits and bring it back to a high gloss S&W finish. JW gave it to a fella that was setting up at the gun show the following weekend and ask him to try and sell it for him.........the gun sold and the fella that bought it was none the wiser as far as the guns history went and was tickled to have it at the price he paid. For my labor I was offered the gun at JW's cost but I declined the offer not because of the guns history but because at the time I already had a Super Blackhawk in .44 mag. [/QUOTE]
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