Old Gunsights Rifle Scopes Identification Price Guide by Stroebel Nick (6 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a clean book with light wear. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Covers betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.6.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition with no additional printings listed, trade paperback, has a small skew to the binding with a thin pull starting near the rear, bumps with creasing to the spine ends and corners, and some smudging to the edges of the text block with a touch of wear to a few pages. Overall, this is a solid, bright, Very Good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. USDR glass: This is a large format trade softcover, that is FINE. Ten pages of sights and scopes in color. 583 pages, examples illustrated on black and white. Light tan spine black title.

Paperback. Condition: new. Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks.

Wraps. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 583 pages. Illustrations (including a color inset). Includes Dedication, Acknowledgments, and Preface. Part One, Old Gunsights, includes The Independent Makers, and The Proprietary Makers. Part Two: Rifle Scopes, includes Scopes, Scope Mounts, and Scope Attachments. Part 3, Scope Attachments, includes Power Boosters. Inside this book, there are over 750 photographs, along with market values for collectible scopes and sights from the mid-1800's through 1985. There are full descriptions and original specs for sights from Christy, King, Lyman, Marble, Pacific, Redfield, Wittect-Vaver, Williams, Ballard, Bullard, Colt, High Standard, Farrow, Marlin, Maynard, Mossberg, Remington, Savage, Sharps, Smith & Wesson, Spencer, Stevens, Wesson, Whitney, and Winchester, as well as scopes from Leupold, Lyman, Marble Arms, Ackley, Redfield, Weaver, Stevens, and many more. Laid in is a folded sheet, printed on one side only on Scope Bases from the John Unertl Optical Company! Nick Stroebel was a licensed dealer of collector firearms and had been collecting old gunsights and scopes for more than a quarter century. He had been actively participating in competitive shooting with rifles, handguns and shotguns. Nick Stroebel's excellent book, OLD GUNSIGHTS, recalls an age not so long ago when hunters went into the field with rifles which mounted iron sights instead of the scopes seen universally today. Yes, there was a time BEFORE SCOPES (BS) and real hunters carried real rifles with iron sights.