Anyone have any old gun Receipts

Lots and LOTS of them.

Mine and rcpts that came with rifles owned by others.

Two of my favorite sets are for buying and fitting of long guns in Europe. One was my Browning bought fitted at Herstal and the other is a double rifle bought and fitted at Holland & Holland.

Todd.

I have one from Gross Photo Mart in Toledo, Ohio, dated 3/16/67. It shows my purchase of a Colt Detective Special for the princely sum of $76.75, plus 3% sales tax.

Have mine from my guns I bought back in the 80s and 90s

I did not keep the first few..... but i have most from 1972 on when i bought my first single six and started saving receipts in that single box..... got a box full......

1967, Colt Python, 50 rnds of 38 and 50 rnds of 357! $175 and change, out the door.

Larry Ashcraft said:

Since I retired and moved into a new house, I don't know where it is, but I have one from Spencer's Sporting goods in Alamosa CO, for my new Colt Gold Cup.

$395 in 1982.

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I dug out a reciept from from SPWI (closed in 94-95) in Burbank Ca. 1992 for a new Colt Gold cup for $499.0

4-5 years latter I was selling a gentleman some old Mopar racing parts. We got to talking guns as he had a gun safe in his garage. He expressed his fondness for hot rodding 45's. I explained my good fortune for buying one at such a good price at a local store.
You could see his jaw drop. He had worked at that store and had wrote Gold Cup instead of Gov't in the companies weekly ad. He explained that he was let go for that mistake as the owner honored the sale for the three he had in stock. I felt a little guilty.

Tom M said:

I have one from Gross Photo Mart in Toledo, Ohio, dated 3/16/67. It shows my purchase of a Colt Detective Special for the princely sum of &76.75, plus 3% sales tax.

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So I checked and $75 in 1967 would be worth $563.86 in 2018. That's about right. Use it, and care for it, and you get the enjoyment, and utility and not lose anything, maybe make a buck or two. Keep it new in the box, and then you see appreciation. All depends on how you measure value, but either way $76.75 well spent.

Some are too damn nostalgic to NOT keep!

Cold War memories.

Todd.

More nostalgia.
The first semi auto I ever bought was from a Sergeant Major when I was a private. I also have the receipt from almost 20 years later when the MEUSOC armorer did their *thing* to it.

Todd.

But this.... THIS has to be my absolute FAVORITE.
Earned on a range we ran for unit training, firing arms rooms foreign-weapons and battalion ammunition and THEN, shipped from the U.S Government's DCM (NOT the CMP civilians) to our mail room because we had an FFL.
Coolest of the cool and a princely sum of $94.30 at that!

Todd.

Picked up this Renaissance High Power many years ago, came with the original receipt from Browning to its destination.....sporting goods store located in Washington State.

Sooooo nice!

I have every receipt.

Ks5shooter said:

I have every receipt.

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Sounds like you had it wired from the get-go. Wish I'd kept all of mine.

Todd.

Some where I have the receipt for my Dads A5 Browning he purchased new in 1948.....think it was around $125.

Somewhere around here I have my pawn receipts for a particular gun.

When I was in the Army and would occasionally find myself short of cash, I would pawn my Gold Cup and ONLY my Gold Cup. See, I KNEW that I would always return for it and only borrowed exactly what I needed keeping it well below the value of the pistol, to me. Were it another of my guns I might have been tempted to say; "What the hell." It was funny to add up the pawn-fees once to see what poor fiscal management cost me. Turned out to be a VERY valuable lesson in accountability.

Todd.

ApacheCoTodd said:

Somewhere around here I have my pawn receipts for a particular gun.

When I was in the Army and would occasionally find myself short of cash, I would pawn my Gold Cup and ONLY my Gold Cup. See, I KNEW that I would always return for it and only borrowed exactly what I needed keeping it well below the value of the pistol, to me. Were it another of my guns I might have been tempted to say; "What the hell." It was funny to add up the pawn-fees once to see what poor fiscal management cost me. Turned out to be a VERY valuable lesson in accountability.

Todd.

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That is a tough one, I have experienced more tough ones than I would like to remember, or maybe I should.......

My grandfather ordered a .228 from P.O. Ackley in 1948. I still have their correspondence, as well as letters and receipts to and from Jack Huntington for dies to make bullets and load cartridges.

I have most of my receipts including a few that weren't mine but came in the box with the gun.

I’ve got the receipt for a Browning High Power that I bought around 1986 for $388.
I bought a Colt 1991A1 in 1999 for $475 and a S&W 60 for $299. I was trying to make up my mind between the 60 and a Colt Magnum Carry which was $340. I liked the 60 better so I bought it and let my brother-in-law know about the Colt which he bought.
The 60 is now worth about $500 and the Magnum Carry about $2,000. Turns out Colt only made it in 1999.
Same thing happened in 1975. Trying to decide between a S&W 17 and a Colt Diamondback in .22 LR. They were each $145.
I bought the Smith and it is now worth about $700. The Dback is worth about $1500 - $2k.

I try to keep most of my firearm receipts in an accordion binder with other important paperwork. Birth and marriage certificate, SS cards etc. I do find other receipts laying around that I can only tell they are receipts by that type of paper used. The ink is usually gone. Any hints to prolong receipt life for storage?

As far as receipts I have found from "back in the day" not many people in my family openly admit to owning firearms. My paternal grandfather has 3 rifles and I was the only one who has seen them since the 1970s. My mother did find a large ledger from my maternal great-grandparents. They were farmers so it was prices on feed, seeds etc. One entry I found interesting just said "Colt" for about $6. The ledger was documentation from around 1915 or so. I spent a few weeks looking for a Colt 1911 in my grandparents house. Never found one so it is likely long gone.

I don't have a large collection by any means but I have the receipt for every gun I own (that I didn't buy in a private sale) in the case that came with the gun

I buy from 2 pawn shops that rarely ever give you a receipt. You can get one if you ask, but very few do. I do have an old hunting license that I found in the butt stock of a Franchi shotgun I bought at one of the stores. It was dated in 1976 and had the name and address of a guy who used to own a popular restaurant in town. He had passed away and the restaurant closed.