Model 18

[ra]

I received an e-mail from Davidson's and it had a model 18 featured, but it had some funky grips on it. It was item #4400, got to this link and click back to item # 4399.

http://www.galleryofguns.com/Genie/default.aspx?item=150680&WT.mc_id=PS_SMITH_MODEL_18

Item #4399 looks just like one I bought in '85, except for the front sight and the lock.
I wonder what this makes mine worth.

ra

[FN in MT]

  At the Reno Show in April I found an early 1980's M-18, like new, target hammer and trigger, std magna grips. Unfortunately no box.  I paid $650 and Frankly didn't feel it was out of line.

  I have found, along with my three other S&W Seeking Buddies...that truly LIKE NEW or UNFIRED older K-22's and  M-18's are getting rarer and rarer. 

 Paying $600 or $700 for a like new K-22 or M-18 VERSUS paying a GRAND for a new lock/MIM gun...No contest with me. 

FN in MT
 

[pneuby]

Older S&W's are going up artificially fast, IMHO. That said, there's an axiom that, "You can never pay too much for a gun. You can only buy it too early.", LOL.