Red Eagle cod box standard pistol value 7*** serial
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Buckeye
Best bet is to post the serial # as that is the first thing needed to give you any info. x-out the last digit if you're skittish. Since the major factor is condition, pictures would help.
When you post the serial # there is books that are published that will tell you if it is a Salt Cod Box Gun, there were only 22 Red Eagles shipped in Salt Cod Boxes in the 7XXX Range.
chet15
Hawkeye
Sounds like it also might be a Type 3 Red Eagle, which is the 2nd most common of the variations. But ya gotta have the box in order for it to be worth the big $. Otherwise its just a red eagle.
The Type 3 Red Eagle came in at $400 for a gun in the 95% class in the last RENE price guide.
Chet15
The Type 3 Red Eagle came in at $400 for a gun in the 95% class in the last RENE price guide.
Chet15
flatgate
Hawkeye
I've seen one of those someplace........
Y'all can guess who's the owner. :roll:
flatgate
Y'all can guess who's the owner. :roll:
flatgate
The man with no camera? :wink:flatgate said:
Y'all can guess who's the owner. :roll:
flatgate
jussbad said:The man with no camera? :wink:flatgate said:
Y'all can guess who's the owner. :roll:
flatgate
:shock: :shock: :shock: To all my few friends out there! I have just signed up for the 'Pro Photobucket' & I am going to start posting pictures!
I have been shamed long enough! :roll: :roll: If Radical can do it I might have a chance!! 8) 8) I am going to get this figured out! J/S :wink: :!: 
radicalrod
Hunter
Hey Steve, not sure if I should be flattered or upset :lol: :lol: :lol:
I think you can figure it out....I have faith in you....you need a good tutor...have FG swing by.....I believe he has the pic thing down :roll: :roll: :roll: RR
I think you can figure it out....I have faith in you....you need a good tutor...have FG swing by.....I believe he has the pic thing down :roll: :roll: :roll: RR
americal
Hunter
ABOUT time for you to post A LOT 8) of RUGERS finest preserved examples 
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Hawkeye
americal said:
Oh, it'll be a month of Sundays before he get's the time........ so I'll just help him out.....
This one has a silly little letter S stamped on it..... and dig the cool "end of the roll" paper lining the box! :shock:
flatgate
I put it up for sale and guy may trade mark 2 stainless 6inch standard needle barrel plus $300 cash. I am thinking $650 and $250-$275, he has lots guns is there a super single six I should consider? Shot one as kid and was alot of fun.
One more dumb question I noticed the front sight has no metal ball indent like other posted cod box gun does this mean anything. I am positive this is cod box gun, in 1970's I tossed box out outside ruger was tatered and wood box had oil in it.
One more dumb question I noticed the front sight has no metal ball indent like other posted cod box gun does this mean anything. I am positive this is cod box gun, in 1970's I tossed box out outside ruger was tatered and wood box had oil in it.
RPM Enterprises
Buckeye
[One more dumb question I noticed the front sight has no metal ball indent like other posted cod box gun does this mean anything. I am positive this is cod box gun, in 1970's I tossed box out outside ruger was tatered and wood box had oil in it.
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Close but no cigar. This gun according to serail numbers of guns shipped in cod boxes is not on the list. It falls between 7224 and 7240 that are on the list. It also looks like someone has tampered with the front sight
Close but no cigar. This gun according to serail numbers of guns shipped in cod boxes is not on the list. It falls between 7224 and 7240 that are on the list. It also looks like someone has tampered with the front sight
capo said:
Serial #7726 is NOT a Salt Cod Box, I have seen this Gun on the internet before, also seems to have alot of wear & as stated above a filed down front sight.
chet15
Hawkeye
A call to the factory would tell you whether the gun was shipped via Railway Express or some other way. Since we are all human, it may actually be that your gun was somehow missed from making the list that RPM Enterprises is speaking of. Actually, just having the factory tell you it was shipped Railway Express is no guarantee for collectors that it was shipped in a pine box, as RE changed their requirements about this time and Ruger was then able to ship RE in cardboard outer bookwraps as well. Ruger did not list in their shipping records whether a gun was shipped in a pine box or a cardboard box...only the manner in which it was shipped (i.e. Parcel Post, Railway Express, "Yellow" etc.).
Honestly, if you can get $600 cash/trade out of your type 3 Red Eagle, I'd go for it. A 95-98% Type 3 Red Eagle currently comes in at about $400 through the latest price guide that we published in Red Eagle News Exchange.
Chet15
Honestly, if you can get $600 cash/trade out of your type 3 Red Eagle, I'd go for it. A 95-98% Type 3 Red Eagle currently comes in at about $400 through the latest price guide that we published in Red Eagle News Exchange.
Chet15
I thought I seen this gun before! It has been for sale for a while off & on, on www.KSL.com.
The front sight has been filed & is NOT factory or rare. J/S
The front sight has been filed & is NOT factory or rare. J/S
RPM Enterprises
Buckeye
capo said:
Capo, You need to join the RENE there is information in there that will help you understand more about variations and serial number ranges. Your gun is not an 1A it is a type 3. Yes the gun does fall into a range when Ruger used cod boxes to ship in. But that was a requirement from the railway express system to ship a firearm. Some guns at that time were actually picked up at the factory. Not all guns were shipped by rail. Your gun shows no evidence of being shipped by rail or in a cod box.
chet15
Hawkeye
Capo:
According to JD's latest book, there were only 1,046 pine salt cod type boxes built for Ruger for one Ruger .22 pistol and an additional 202 pine salt-cod type boxes built for a two-gun package.
My notes show verified salt cod guns as existing from two-digit serial numbered examples all the way up to 5009 which is the highest gun I know of with certainty was shipped originally in a salt cod box, a gun that was shipped in May 1950. A couple higher serial numbered guns are known that are currently in salt cod boxes, but those two do not appear in the list that JD published, so we can only surmise that those two may have been sent back to the factory for some type of repair and then returned to the owner via railway express in the pine box.
It is really hit or miss with a salt cod boxed gun (when it doesn't have the pine with it) as only about 10% of the guns up to your serial number were ever shipped in one to begin with. And to be honest, I'm not sure all those higher numbered guns in JD's list up to the 9xxx were shipped in pine as Railway Express eliminated the need to ship in wood boxes sometime in the early to mid-1950's.
I've also seen a few .22 pistols in wood boxes, but nothing like the ones Ruger shipped their early guns in.
Chet15
Another note: Ruger didn't see the need to have any pine boxes produced for their Mark I auto first shipped in about January 1951. Of course, Ruger's distributor system had been developed by that time so the group lots were going out with cardboard sleeves or even cardboard cases via yellow carrier or something of the sort. This is what leads me to believe that in 1950 or 1951 RE changed their policy of the need to ship in wood boxes. There are also a couple of RE shipped flattops known that have cardboard sleeves.
According to JD's latest book, there were only 1,046 pine salt cod type boxes built for Ruger for one Ruger .22 pistol and an additional 202 pine salt-cod type boxes built for a two-gun package.
My notes show verified salt cod guns as existing from two-digit serial numbered examples all the way up to 5009 which is the highest gun I know of with certainty was shipped originally in a salt cod box, a gun that was shipped in May 1950. A couple higher serial numbered guns are known that are currently in salt cod boxes, but those two do not appear in the list that JD published, so we can only surmise that those two may have been sent back to the factory for some type of repair and then returned to the owner via railway express in the pine box.
It is really hit or miss with a salt cod boxed gun (when it doesn't have the pine with it) as only about 10% of the guns up to your serial number were ever shipped in one to begin with. And to be honest, I'm not sure all those higher numbered guns in JD's list up to the 9xxx were shipped in pine as Railway Express eliminated the need to ship in wood boxes sometime in the early to mid-1950's.
I've also seen a few .22 pistols in wood boxes, but nothing like the ones Ruger shipped their early guns in.
Chet15
Another note: Ruger didn't see the need to have any pine boxes produced for their Mark I auto first shipped in about January 1951. Of course, Ruger's distributor system had been developed by that time so the group lots were going out with cardboard sleeves or even cardboard cases via yellow carrier or something of the sort. This is what leads me to believe that in 1950 or 1951 RE changed their policy of the need to ship in wood boxes. There are also a couple of RE shipped flattops known that have cardboard sleeves.
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