2-Piper, I agree but I still note that every other maker made their guns cheaper an plainer as they went while LeFever went up as they went. Also LeFever marked his grades to prevent retailer claiming a lower graded gun was a higher priced grade.
I have always wondered the classics what if about LeFever? What if he was born 20 years, later would his guns been so diverse? What if he had not suffered a almost total loss of everything due to a fire, would he have so many partners? What if he had a marketing genius for a partner would he have lasted longer? I never get the feeling he was a bad business man but more that he was always under financed or moving onto the next great concept before the last one had worked out. Ansley Fox was much like that as well.
