The candor "window" is narrow for owners and closed on the day he buys it and the day he sells. I imagine there's a good deal of hot air spouted by those who have writer's cramp from all the zeros on the check and those who don't. Why does having possession of a gun (particularly a high dollar collectible) make one the sole trustworthy source of information? The opinion of those who have shot the spit out of them (Keith) and the mechanics who have fixed them (Trevallion) carry more weight. And who leads the collectors by the nose? The historians.

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