Fine doubles were the guns of the 50's and 60's. People who wanted them when they were young are now old and their estates or widows are selling them, not buying them. They were sought after by hunters and few in the younger generations have the opportunity to hunt without substantial effort and expense.
Sorry, Bob, but you've got that altogether wrong. Fine doubles were guns from the late 1800's until the late 1940's, when servicemen returning home started the trend toward repeating shotguns like the Winchester Model 12, the Browning A-5, and even later the Remington 870's and 1100's, as well O/U's like the Superposeds and various imports from Stoeger, G&H, and Charles Daly, well into the '60's and early '70's.
About then there emerged a resurgence of interest in the classic sxs's that spurred the Win. 23, the SKB's, the BSS from Browning, along with the many Parkers, Foxes, L C Smiths, Ithacas, etc that we still see, along with the British and Continental guns thrown in.
There is still a significant market of well-to-do shooters who want these guns in their battery.
JR
