Ted, I agree on all counts.
It may be a tough comparison to make, but I think if Rocketman applied his formulae to external hammer guns, they would be lower valued than sidelocks, but yet, they have pretty similar requirements for inletting and lock manufacture etc. so it would reflect just the demand in the markets. That said it seems that good quality hammer guns have come up in value a little bit (or gone down less) in recent years. But that may be just my imagination.
Auction results, which my valuations are based on, say hammer guns value just about like boxlocks ejectors. There aren't enough hammer ejector guns out and about to differentiate ejectors from non-ejectors. BV of hammergun makers is the same as for SL and BL. CC is also judged as for SL an BL guns. OQ is judged from one to five for SLE's, two to six for SLNE's and from five to nine for BL. That is, a best work BLE will be OQ5 and border engraved BLE will be OQ7. BLNE's will go generally from OQ7 to OQ9 (farmer's tool). Westley Richards sorta split the difference between SLE and BLE for OQ.
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