Marks 21: Time may prove you to be right.
However... most $600 guns need about $500 worth of work to make them serviceable and safe (& that's assuming you can find someone reasonably competent to do it) and with this gun that work has already been done (& spectacularly).
There are other intangibles here as well (history, originality, & rarity) and maybe these things only mean something to me but...time will tell after all.
I do appreciate the input & here's more photography to satisfy your morbid curiosity...
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