Zim, I look at it this way. I can buy a perfectly functional working grade double for $10k that will probably provide a lifetime of service. When you get above that or to several mulitples of that, I want someting more, be it handling, fit and finish, history, etc. The collector or nostalgic value is destroyed with this gun, and someone probably spent a lot of money in order to do it! It would have value only as a shooter to me.

Here is another example of what I mean: No accounting for taste!

They have a Krieghoff K-32 that was formerly listed for ~$30k with pornographic gold inlays all over it. It obviously cost someone a lot to have that done, but I wouldn't pay $100 for it. Maybe if someone gave it to me I'd file off the offending metal work and use it as a truck gun, but otherwise I'd be embarrassed to be seen with it.

Someone spent good money in order to make a good gun worth less. I can do that for free just by dropping one!

Bob