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ordered letter of authentication will let you know resultsHow did you do on your elk hunt? We like photos on this site you know!
You can satisfy your curiosity about your early Finnbear by getting the Level 2 service for $30 which gives you the date it was made (inspected), original caliber, date and to whom it was shipped, and number of similar rifles in that shipment. You also get photocopies of the pages of the actual ledger books the rifle appears on. For another $22.50 you get the Level 3 Letter of Authentication, which is basically the Level 2 information in narrative form on the Sako Collectors Club letterhead printed on parchment paper.
I've gotten the Letters on my Sakos purely for my own enjoyment. How much, if any, the Letter might add to the value of a rifle is subject to speculation, but it does erase all doubt as to its originality. I've gotten the Level 1 service ($15) on two rifles I was considering buying that I was suspicious of and found that each of them was altered (one was a standard placed in a Deluxe stock and the other had been rebarreled with a Sako barrel of a different caliber.) Needless to say, I walked away from both deals.
One of our forum sponsors, Bell's Guns, is providing a Letter of Authentication with all of the Sakos he sells (within the range of the records the SCC has). He recently sold this Deluxe .25-06 on Gunbroker: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=510898609 I thought it might bring about $1500-$1700, but it brought $2,100. Whether the Letter was responsible for that apparent premium or not I can't say, but its price sure surprised me.
How did you do on your elk hunt? We like photos on this site you know!
You can satisfy your curiosity about your early Finnbear by getting the Level 2 service for $30 which gives you the date it was made (inspected), original caliber, date and to whom it was shipped, and number of similar rifles in that shipment. You also get photocopies of the pages of the actual ledger books the rifle appears on. For another $22.50 you get the Level 3 Letter of Authentication, which is basically the Level 2 information in narrative form on the Sako Collectors Club letterhead printed on parchment paper.
I've gotten the Letters on my Sakos purely for my own enjoyment. How much, if any, the Letter might add to the value of a rifle is subject to speculation, but it does erase all doubt as to its originality. I've gotten the Level 1 service ($15) on two rifles I was considering buying that I was suspicious of and found that each of them was altered (one was a standard placed in a Deluxe stock and the other had been rebarreled with a Sako barrel of a different caliber.) Needless to say, I walked away from both deals.
One of our forum sponsors, Bell's Guns, is providing a Letter of Authentication with all of the Sakos he sells (within the range of the records the SCC has). He recently sold this Deluxe .25-06 on Gunbroker: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=510898609 I thought it might bring about $1500-$1700, but it brought $2,100. Whether the Letter was responsible for that apparent premium or not I can't say, but its price sure surprised me.
Sorry for late reply was in Colorado elk hunting .
did well on elk hunt 6x6 four of us each killed bulls two 6x6 one 6x5 one 4x5