I see this occasionally and the seller asks a premium vs selling one at a time. I've personally never cared about a "consecutive pair".

"Consecutive pairs" is for fun talk, but premium added? Nope.

Not in the usual way. I do have two consecutively numbered P2000’s that were bought at two completely different times with absolutely no intent to do so and that sort of tickles me but only because of that specific personal incident.

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Consecutive serials?

Not really unless it is something from a limited production run.

By limited, I'm thinking 100 or so examples (not 25,000).

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Not in the usual way. I do have two consecutively numbered P2000’s that were bought at two completely different times with absolutely no intent to do so and that sort of tickles me but only because of that specific personal incident.

Same thing happened to me when the S&W Shields came out. I was on the waiting list at two stores. Picked one up when the first store called me. Two days later store 2 calls. I bought it as well. Get it home and find out I have consecutive serial numbers. Fun story and now I can’t sell either.

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Consecutive serials?

Not really unless it is something from a limited production run.

By limited, I'm thinking 100 or so examples (not 25,000).

I had a consecutive pair that was part of a limited production of 25. Sold them separately.

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Nah, but my wife's EDC Glock 26 and her spare one are consecutive serial numbers, and the letters KPD are the same as the agency that I worked for.

It’s not something I care much about, but I can see how someone might. It’s kind of cool. Also, I have two sons, and I can see how it might be nice if I gave them consecutively numbered guns.

I do understand a premium in pricing, just because of market forces. You can’t just go and get them any time you want, so they warrant a higher price.

I had 40 consecutive serials of Glock 45 MOS-5 guns, then I had to issue them out. lol

on old historic guns, sure I suppose.

On new guns it's just silly, they're all consecutively serial numbered from the factory and just because someone decided to buy in bulk doesn't make it anymore special. Just used as an excuse to force gullible buyers into paying premium for two guns that likely can't be separated from that point forward in order to maintain their "value".

Nope. When I see that in an ad the only thing it tells me is that the seller is pretty much guaranteed to be asking too much.

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Originally posted by cslinger:
Not in the usual way. I do have two consecutively numbered P2000’s that were bought at two completely different times with absolutely no intent to do so and that sort of tickles me but only because of that specific personal incident.

That experience would zing me also but pairs are not something I would normally seek

I had a truck and I tried listing it for sale twice with a markup. Once when the mileage was 42069k and another when it hit 80085k. There were no takers.


I have zero interest in consecutive numbers. I would have to own almost every gun produced before I would want two identical guns.

Just for the pair of Guncrafter Ind. 1911 that I ordered to be consecutive serial numbers (9mm and 45 cal) in commander size. Those will be given to my son when I am gone.

In my youth, I once exclaimed over a pair of guns in the showcase with consecutive serial numbers. The dealer said "Son, they all come out of the factory with consecutive numbers."

There was once a gunzine article with revolvers having consecutive serial numbers shot side by side to show how similar or different they were.

I doubt a pair of consecutive numbered guns will add much. The only one I have is a pair of High Powers made in Belgium, slotted and with tangent sights. They only had a couple consecutive ones left so I bought the pair. One of them I had the disconnect removed and the trigger lightened and smoothed up, to occasionally shoot. I left the other as new. I doubt they are worth much more, if any, than two with serial numbers apart.

On a first or maybe second gen Colt Single Action Army, sure a little bit... just about everything else, nothing other than the "neat" factor.

I once intentionally ordered two of the same pistol and requested consecutive serial numbers just as a quirky point of being. It doesn't increase the value one bit.

When I was much more of a gun owner than shooter I used to be very interested in serial numbers. I still remember that a High Standard shotgun I owned had a palindrome number: read the same forward and backward. That’s one gun I wish I still had, but not because of the number. A pair of HK P7M13 pistols a friend picked up in Germany for the two of us had consecutive numbers, including one (his, of course) that ended in 000. But although the agreement was that if one of us decided to get rid of ours the other was to be offered first choice. That unfortunately didn’t happen, and I wish I hadn’t let mine go the way I did, but again not because of the numbers.

After I become much more interested in shooting than just owning guns, I lost all interest in serial numbers, just as I mostly have in other “special” features that make it more likely I’ll hesitate to shoot them.

There has to be something beyond just being numerically consecutive. I have consecutively numbered S&W 629-1 that are 1987 Iditarod Commemoratives that have the serial prefix "AKI" and are 2 of the 565 made. I think that adds a certain cachet - maybe not value, but coolness...



Adios,

Pizza Bob

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