Buyers should patiently take a break from looking for Model 42s on the internet. A real skeet grade is outnumbered ten to one by faked up guns. "Original" vent rib guns are nonexistent in internet sales although there are many that are described that way. Reserve and asking prices are in multiples of what original high condition graded and ribbed guns should go for but, even worse, the guns with these high asking prices are not originals. Refinished field grades with $250 worth of engraving are being hawked in five figures. Nine out of ten engraved 42s being offered are very badly done. They would be worth more in original field grade unengraved configuration. Let's take a break and let things settle down.
