I have 2 old herters C style presses and was just wondering if they are worth anything? They are before my time.

Thanks

If the parts are all there they're built very tough and work fairly well.

Nothing wrong with them....if you need parts some are available but not readily.

If it were mine, I'd sell it on Ebay and buy a rockchucker.

I bought one in the early 70's for 14.99. I still use it but don't have all the shellholders I'd like to have for it. Heavy SOB, worth a couple of bucks as scrap iron.

They're great presses. The problem with them is that they use a proprietary shellholder head unlike those for other presses. RCBS makes a converter, and you can also find Herter shell holder heads on ebay fairly often.

My advice is to keep them, collect shell holders as you come across them, and use them as they'll never wear out.

There's a very long thread around here somewhere about Herter's. Believe it or don't but there are guys who collect the old original Herters stuff. I don't know how you find them except maybe on Forums like this or maybe on E-bay but they're out there.

Ray

The later Herter's presses take standard shellholders. CH also offers both an adapter and a replacement ram cut for standard shellholders for the older presses. The presses have little sale value, especially if they must be shipped, but should be worth $25 to someone local.

As others have noted, they are good sturdy presses, although not as strong as an O press. They make good spares or loaners.

Safari: Early this spring I bought an old dusty Herters "double" "C" type press at an estate sale! It had two Herters dies in it and I paid $3.00 for it!
I had never seen a double die (semi-progressive?) "C" type press before - made by anyone, let alone Herters.
You could actually deprime/resize one brass and do bullet seating on another barss on every stroke.
This thing weighed 50 pounds if it weighed an ounce! I cursed it everytime I loaded it up to take to a Gunshow!
I thought I was gonna cut a fat hog on this press once I cleaned it up! I had visions of making a $60.00 or a $70.00 bill on it!
Alas I sold it for $40.00 and that was after 7 or 8 Gunshows were under my belt with this "anchor"!
Best of luck if you decide to sell them.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Varmint Guy: As you found, those old presses are for usin', not for sellin'.

Herter's memorabilia collecting is more-or-less limited to their decoys and a few other items. Their reloading equipment, particularly because of the cost of shipping it, goes pretty cheap (although much of it is very good).

Well thanks for the input, I'll probably just hang on to the 2 old presses that I have. They were gave to me when I first cut my teeth on reloading. Thanks again.