Well I suppose my statement was a bit provocative, and maybe even hypocritical to a degree. Frankly, I intended it that way!

I'll even confess to having a couple of rifles with interesting provenance. Fortunately not Parkers.
James Woodward "The Automatic"
Charles Lancaster .280 Flanged Nitro Express

Just think: if I were a famous person I could buy garden variety mass produced guns and then re-sell them at handsome profit just so the buyer could crow about the gun having been owned by Roscoe Stephenson! That would be a fine way to make a living, in my mind.

Curl