In reply. I hope I can articulate my point of view without any arrogance intended or meant. Over the past 40 years I have had a great passion for English big game guns. I discovered that you could easily pay 10 or 80 times the original purchase price of a gun. Sometimes the guns can be doctored to the point they have to be passed on. I am certain the purchasers of the now 1920s classics would have been classified as madmen at the time. Thank nimrod & Diana they did , their lunacy is now our great bond. All of us can afford one of their follies. My guns are not for profit, some of my most cherished oldies came by way of profit, however like the caption of 1 of our followers you never pay too much you only buy too early. Hence I now have more new than old & only hope that my grandsons will pass them on for love as much as money. I love my hunting as much as my guns & whilst quail shooting last weekend I could only think of the madman that purchased the purdey 12 bore 2barrel set how happy he would be to look down(of course he would be in heaven) to see his follie so cherished by 6 & 10 year olds following their old goat grandad.