All my comments were simply assumeing you buy "right", and compareing a "bought right" side lock, or box lock bought 20 yrs ago will show a lot more profit on today's market,percentage wise, than the same rifle bought RIGHT today. It goes without saying if you buy a piece of junk,and pay top dollar for it you will loose money, no matter when you buy it, generally speaking.

Your last post is only saying what I was trying to get across, in mine! If you don't know what you are doing you will not make good investments,and it is easy to get stung on old doubles, of any name, or configuration. If you are in the market for a double to use for hunting, and don't know the ins, and outs of buying collector rifles, then you are better off to buy new! Still today, the very large profits made a few years ago, will not show up on doubles bought today, that it did a few years ago, so the simple fact that it is British doesn't make it a sound investment
for a person new to doubles, so reccomending he buy Britt for the investment is not a sound idea. The "ANY BRITT" being a good buy days, are over compared to the sound investment that it once was, all things being equal!