Lee- Speed
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Topic: Lee- Speed
Posted By: Dale
Subject: Lee- Speed
Date Posted: March 15 2023 at 2:46pm
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I have a Lee- speed Patents 303 and looking for info on it like the year and maybe value. The Ser# is 3547 on both barrel and breach. Looks like it is fully intact including volley sights.   |
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: March 15 2023 at 5:51pm
| some of your text was cut off by photos in my screen , but it does appear to be a complete rifle and a nice find from what i can see , i know little of these so will allow those more knowledgeable to respond , |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: March 16 2023 at 10:07am
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I hope you don't mind I tidied up your post a little to make it clearer. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: March 17 2023 at 3:20am
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An officers Pattern No.1, very nice. If it has a safety at the rear of the bolt then it was made after 1895 and up to the 1930`s, other than that maybe an original sale receipt or ownership provenance for a more exact date.
------------- shoot em if you got em |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 4:15am
| I can't give you an accurate price without lots more pics but I can give you a range of between $1,200 to $1,600 usd. I recently bought a viewed civilian M.L.E. MkI* target rifle in near mint condition with a Twin Zero micrometer peep sight on it for $1,900 so working backwards the sight is worth $400 and the condition of mine is better. Yours is somewhat rarer so the price range I suggested is fairly accurate. Of course, anything goes in an auction, especially if you get two or three large egos bidding against each other. The prices quoted are approximately the going rate for such rifles in the U.S. I can't speak to the Canadian market. |
Posted By: shiloh
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 5:00am
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"I can't speak to the Canadian market" I saw one here recently, complete and unaltered, the asking price was north of $2000. As much as I`d like to own one of these, at these prices my pension strongly disagrees...lol Very nice old rifle and a keeper I would think. ------------- shoot em if you got em |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: April 08 2023 at 5:59pm
| If you're talking $2,000 CDN then with the exchange rate I wasn't too far off. |