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CustomX Newbie Offline Posts: 2 Joined: Aug 31^st, 2025	Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Sep 1^st, 2025 at 10:47am	Print Post
	Hello, I purchased this at an auction and I’m hoping some of you all here can help give me more information about it and maybe a potential value for when I try to sell it. I’ve looked online and the values are sort of all over the place and there’s very scarce information about the sight itself. If anyone has information about this particular sight, I’d appreciate it. Thank you


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17113 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #1 - Sep 1^st, 2025 at 10:59am	Print Post
	Well to start with it's a rifle scope, not a "sight". And being Wards marked it was like all Wards stuff, made by another company. Likely a Wollensak, or maybe Mossberg. You have one big issue that affects value and that's the mount. You have the scope half, but you're missing the base that this mount goes with. I see these selling with good lenses, and crosshairs for about $100 at most local gun shows. I sold a handful of them at the Colorado May show for $150 for 6 of them, some with that same mount, and some with other mounts. You'll likely have trouble getting even the $100 I mentioned, but maybe.

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CustomX Newbie Offline Posts: 2 Joined: Aug 31^st, 2025	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #2 - Sep 1^st, 2025 at 12:09pm	Print Post
	marlinguy wrote on Sep 1^st, 2025 at 10:59am: Well to start with it's a rifle scope, not a "sight". And being Wards marked it was like all Wards stuff, made by another company. Likely a Wollensak, or maybe Mossberg. You have one big issue that affects value and that's the mount. You have the scope half, but you're missing the base that this mount goes with. I see these selling with good lenses, and crosshairs for about $100 at most local gun shows. I sold a handful of them at the Colorado May show for $150 for 6 of them, some with that same mount, and some with other mounts. You'll likely have trouble getting even the $100 I mentioned, but maybe. Ok, thank you. I called it a sight because that’s what’s printed on it, but scope makes more sense. This one has good lenses and crosshairs. Bummer about the mount. Luckily, I’m only in it for about $10 so even if I can get $20, it’s a bit of a profit. Thank you for your time and information!


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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7483 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #3 - Sep 1^st, 2025 at 12:27pm	Print Post
	It's a Mossberg, made for Wards. There are no differences but, the markings.

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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17113 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #4 - Sep 1^st, 2025 at 6:06pm	Print Post
	Years ago I was buying all those old scopes I could find for $5-$10 each, and the ones with target type mounts were the most desirable. The mounts alone could be removed from the old scopes and sold back then for $40-$50, and more these days. The best ones I had sold for $50-$100, but I had a guy ask what I'd do if he bought all the rest and I was tired of trying to sell them, so figured $25 each and let him have all of them. He wanted them just for whatever parts he could use.

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jhm Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1833 Location: georgia Joined: Sep 4^th, 2011	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #5 - Sep 4^th, 2025 at 2:26am	Print Post
	Someone with a mill and a piece of material could make a mount for it. Picture would help... JMH


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 17113 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #6 - Sep 4^th, 2025 at 10:51am	Print Post
	jhm wrote on Sep 4^th, 2025 at 2:26am: Someone with a mill and a piece of material could make a mount for it. Picture would help... JMH The mounts were usually for receivers that had flat sides like a lever action repeater or a single shot rifle. They were a square base that's milled like a large dovetail so the scope mount slid into it and the arm you see on his mount was turned to spread the mount and lock it into the base. They were fairly thick material and used flat head machine screws that sat flush so they didn't interfere with the mount sliding in. Usually 4 screws if I recall correctly. So not many people wanted to drill 4 holes in the side of their actions. Making a base would complete it, but then you'd have to already have a gun with the holes in it and match the pattern. Nobody would drill and tap their receiver to use this mount and scope, so in my opinion it would be a waste of time and money to make a base.

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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7483 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #7 - Sep 4^th, 2025 at 11:51am	Print Post
	The vast majority of that type mount, was used on the late 30's to '50's 22 rf, bolt action rifles. The mount for the dove tail, for those round actions, used two screws to mount it.

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jhm Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1833 Location: georgia Joined: Sep 4^th, 2011	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #8 - Sep 4^th, 2025 at 4:43pm	Print Post
	I agree. Just saying with a little effort it could be utilized if you wanted to go to the trouble. JMH


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FourBird Junior Member Offline Posts: 61 Location: Olympia, WA Joined: Oct 13^th, 2011	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #9 - Sep 5^th, 2025 at 10:36am	Print Post
	Go to: rimfirecentral.com. They have a Mossberg forum. You may find some interest in your scope.

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frnkeore Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 7483 Location: Central Point, OR 97502 Joined: Jun 16^th, 2010	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #10 - Sep 7^th, 2025 at 3:41am	Print Post
	This is where you will find all things Mossberg: (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links) Check out the catalogs, scopes and mounts. It's a wealth of info.

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GeneB Participating Member Offline Posts: 17 Joined: Dec 10^th, 2015	Re: Wards Telescope Sight Model 10 - Age? Value? Reply #11 - Sep 10^th, 2025 at 11:59am	Print Post
	The term "telescopic sight" has been in use since scopes were first fitted with some internal sighting aide and put on rifles well over 100 years ago, so it's a tradition term and 'telescope sight' is not much different. The Mossberg/Wards scope you have only took one type of mounting base and it was only for 22 rifles with round receivers with the standard Mossberg hole spacing. The bases are cast white metal and are either unmarked or have "NEWTON" in raised letters in the casting - I have never found out why that name is on a mount only used for Mossberg's scopes. I have never seen another type of mount made for these. The Mossberg hole spacing is narrower than used by Weaver on their side mounts and the holes are slightly higher on the receivers. When Wards was selling Mossberg made scopes most of the 22's they sold were drilled & tapped for Mossberg mounts, even the ones made for them by Savage/Stevens, which for all other retailers were drilled to take Weaver mounts.


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