I bought my Beeman R1 .177 on November 14, 1981 from Robert Beeman's modest shop on Paul Drive in northern San Rafael, California, At the time of purchase he told me it would be a collectors gun because it was double stamped on the left side. I took that to be sales talk but it did resonate with me because I found it curious he would say that.
I have all the paperwork including my original receipt, owners manual, care and maintenance manual, the Percision Airgun Guide (Winter 1981), and the sight-in target it came with. I have an original Beeman pellet tin, more Beeman Precision Airgun Guides (4 books) and one Beeman Airgun News (pamphlet) which was mailed to my home address from the Paul Drive address.
The R1 has been properly stored and is in excellent condition, I have not fired it in years and the last time it was fired it was using Beeman cleaning pellets. I've come across a couple of forums that said only the first couple of R1's were double stamped on the left side (rare), and there's only one other R1 like in known existence which is in a 'Beeman Museum" (?). I have not been able to search up a 'Beeman Museum", and I can not find an 'Airgun Blue Book'. See this link for a picture of the double stamp. https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/some-rare-markings-airguns/
All that to say I know I have something rare and special but I need someone to point me to sites /groups /places where I can have it fairly appraised.
Please comment. Tim Magee
I have all the paperwork including my original receipt, owners manual, care and maintenance manual, the Percision Airgun Guide (Winter 1981), and the sight-in target it came with. I have an original Beeman pellet tin, more Beeman Precision Airgun Guides (4 books) and one Beeman Airgun News (pamphlet) which was mailed to my home address from the Paul Drive address.
The R1 has been properly stored and is in excellent condition, I have not fired it in years and the last time it was fired it was using Beeman cleaning pellets. I've come across a couple of forums that said only the first couple of R1's were double stamped on the left side (rare), and there's only one other R1 like in known existence which is in a 'Beeman Museum" (?). I have not been able to search up a 'Beeman Museum", and I can not find an 'Airgun Blue Book'. See this link for a picture of the double stamp. https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/some-rare-markings-airguns/
All that to say I know I have something rare and special but I need someone to point me to sites /groups /places where I can have it fairly appraised.
Please comment. Tim Magee