Ballard identification
PostedCOLON Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:40 am
Hello all
My name is Tangara and I have and interesting situation. First of all my main area of collecting is in the military surplus realm. I have been officially collecting since last march, unofficially since I was a kid and wanted a Mauser broom handle pistol. I received my C&R FFL in June.
Here is my situation, my wife’s uncle recently passed away and his widow called my father in law and said I have all these guns and do not know what to do with them will you help me dispose of them. There are 105 long guns and 35 pistols. Many are C&R and a good number are in the 1K range. If I personally could get the financing to buy the whole collection I would and sell the majority of it little by little. But unfortunately I do not have the assets 50K to 75K to do this.
I personally do not want to see it all go to a dealer, but have limited say in this matter.
In this collection there are six Ballard rifles. A couple are original Ballards and a couple are of Marlin manufacture and a few are custom built on Ballard receivers. I will post some pictures of one of the custom 22Lr rifles. This is a Axel W. Peterson of Denver rifle with a J. Unertl scope and Schuetzen style stock. I was wondering if you good people could help me identify and place a general value range on some of these rifles.






My name is Tangara and I have and interesting situation. First of all my main area of collecting is in the military surplus realm. I have been officially collecting since last march, unofficially since I was a kid and wanted a Mauser broom handle pistol. I received my C&R FFL in June.

Here is my situation, my wife’s uncle recently passed away and his widow called my father in law and said I have all these guns and do not know what to do with them will you help me dispose of them. There are 105 long guns and 35 pistols. Many are C&R and a good number are in the 1K range. If I personally could get the financing to buy the whole collection I would and sell the majority of it little by little. But unfortunately I do not have the assets 50K to 75K to do this.

In this collection there are six Ballard rifles. A couple are original Ballards and a couple are of Marlin manufacture and a few are custom built on Ballard receivers. I will post some pictures of one of the custom 22Lr rifles. This is a Axel W. Peterson of Denver rifle with a J. Unertl scope and Schuetzen style stock. I was wondering if you good people could help me identify and place a general value range on some of these rifles.





