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I see guns from all the climes.
Life use to be easy, as I only looked at English Sle gameguns, but interests in the American field grades have complicated things.
No longer do I look at the English guns.
...and I've never-ever look at the Euros.
With all these strikes against places, things are narrowed down and easier. I buy from only just somewhere these days, and hope for the best condition I can.
Place first, condition second!

You're getting old, Lowell. Enjoy (shoot) the guns that you have and quit worrying so much about your next purchase.

Lowell,

The way the collector's world is going, judging from a few recent gun shows, condition is going to be the hole card, trump, or ace in the sleeve for bragging rights. I used to have a little chuckle at the fellows standing in a cluster ooh'ing and aah'ing over a single barrel Montgomery Ward shotgun in pristine condition.

No longer!!! Nossir! A pristine Remington hammer gun in field grade is just as brag-worthy as any other steel and wood concoction. The competitiveness for who can lift their leg the highest on the brag-pole has never been keener. As the field of 'new' old products thins for 'gotta-have' mentalities, the one-uppers are sliding right down the scale of 'names', in grease of their own making.

Pretty soon some of those mint plowshares oughta be showing up in those Pah-kuh und Yhenglish [yawn....]gunrooms.

In the meantime? ....Condition, man!! Think condition. ;~`)

Hopper says there is more to life than the American plowboy's A&D
altho if I remember, the poetic conceit of the yeoman's doublegun belongs to you rather than me. I'm not clear why point of origin necessarily chalks up a strike against the product of any good artisan. I do understand why geopolitics and war does so for a time. I like novelty of design and decoration. Making a virtue of necessity, I'm forced to agree about condition. I wanna shoot em.

jack

Yeh, I can see the Pahkarites salivating as they stuff the gaudy 311 .410 in the safe.

jack

Lowell likes Rabbit's new third person postings!

I'll have to wait for Rocketman on this, as he puts things into dollars and cents for me.
Is a pristine Prussian gun a whole lot more than a 90%er?
Somehow I don't think so.
The place of birth, is important.

JohnM, funny you mention "Remington hammerguns," I've been looking at three over at Lewis Drakes' little shop of bargins!
Take a look and see what you think!
I've been trying to find a nook in the gun world, and I thought Remmies would do just fine.

According to his prices, we are too late.

You should purchase guns that fit your place in society. Let's look at contents of typical safe belonging to a memeber of landed gentry: No Mickey Mouse optics either.

Lord Lowell -

We must endure the 'Pahkerites' drooling over the old fart's $6K NIB Trojan while the spectacular but grimy 28 ga. Lindner Daly with the shortened stock languishes nearby. While the noveau experts wait with keen anticipation to see if the pristine barn gun 'letters', the man with the 'potpouri' table whines his refusal of the $2k offer on the Daly with the oft-heard lament, "Can't do that - I've got more than that in it." Delicate game scenes cleaned off with rag and kero, the woodland nymphs emerge ghostly from the little Daly's surfaces,in sharp contrast to the blazing colors of the plain Jane Yankee gun. KBM