The pictures are those of the early, standard version of the M-1885, with the normally good Browning wood, from about 1986-90 or so. A check of the serial number will verify the production date.
Some will have wood several grades above that pictured, but it's a chancy thing.
Although all are rising in value, they are doing so very slowly, because the basic gun is still in production, and Browning made a gazillion of them - in other words, they're not hard to find, and if one's priced too high, it won't sell.
[I paid $695.00 foor mine 1 year ago.]
mountaingoat is essentially still correct, for that basic model. allowing for inflation.
I also paid $700 a year ago, but the one I bought was not the basic model - it was the much later .45-70 Traditional Hunter w/issue Marbles Tang sight, etc.
Yes, I got a deal - the TH should have cost me over $1K at the time - but I bought it as a dealer, since I was working the gun show as a favor for an FFL that day, using his FFL, and what goes around, comes around.
