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Single cylinder old model XR3 frame Single Six from 1959 before the convertibles were offered. Not converted, pretty nice condition with a moderate cylinder line, and typical minor wear for a 65 year old revolver, and the grip eagles are missing 80% of their black paint. Mechanically excellent...

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Reduced to $670 shipped

Stainless Security Six in .357 Mag with the 4" barrel. Being a 1976 Liberty gun, there is no Warning statement on the barrel since that started in the 1977-78 timeframe. Model GA34 in good condition with some light scuffs and scratches, but being stainless, it could be refinished with a Scotch...

These are hard to find with the long barrel, a first year of production model SSM9 Single Six in .32 Mag. The SSM9 has the 9.5" barrel and represented only a small fraction of the adjustable sight .32 H&R Single Six production. This one is from 1984 which went from 650-00001 to 650-03480 per the...

Here is the larger pic of your box. I just copied these pics in directly from the auction site. Open the larger auction pic in one window and drag it in to the forum post in another window and drop. The labels on the old red boxes ran the gamut and quite a few were modified like that one with...

If I didn't already have a couple lowback GA32's, I may have gone higher. I was after this one due to the box. One of mine is boxed but it is the factory high polished gun boxed in a later yellow box with a barcode label over the handwritten "High Polish". I think they used it as a guinnea pig...

Sounds to me like any number will do since there were no 5 digit guns. If a 4 digit will work, you might have better luck taking the "3 digit" part out of your title.

I sold a LNIB 178 prefixed one last December here in the Classifieds for $1250 shipped. Then I bought a 175 prefixed one in Feb for less, but I intend to keep that one.

Oh Ron, I'm sorry! I didn't know you were chasing it. I was the other bidder and actually didn't mean to drive the price so high! I determine my max bids in advance in a spreadsheet where I enter my value estimate and it factors out the buyer's premium and rounds to the next lower bid increment...

Which part? That they have prefixed serial numbers so would be from 1969 onward, or that they are the 1956 onward collection?

Stainless GP100 in .357 Mag with 6" barrel, model KGP161, shipped in 2016 per the Ruger SN lookup. Condition appears as new except for some soot staining on cylinder face from firing. Tight lockup and bright bore with crisp rifling. Has the original box, lock, papers, takedown pin, inner plastic...

I'm guessing if all these were manufactured during those employment years (68-82), most would be prefixed? My cheat sheet on subscription holders says a guy in CA had the #70 handguns from 1956 upward, acquired from an employee. But that info is pretty old.

My collection is (almost) like a black hole where it is (nearly) impossible for a gun to escape once it gets sucked in. But my dealer horde is more like purgatory where guns sit waiting to either be sold or moved into my collection. I have a 3 digit Type 1 waiting in my dealer stash. I have it...