wombat:
Anyone who pays "3 or 4 times as much for some old piece of Pommie shit" is indeed a fool, however only a bigger fool would contend that because a gun is pommie, and old, it must be sh!t! Someone who acquires a sound Wilkes/Scott/Jeffery et al for the same money is probably a little smarter than you
...give them credit for!

The purchasers of brand-new high-end Brit doubles today are not even going to look at a Kreighoff/Searcy/Shampoo gun! Different market.

I am at a loss to understand the need to roundly 'can' British doubles in order to justify buying a Searcy. If you like Searcys, buy one! The decision needs no justification. ...but bagging Brit guns out-of-hand just advertises your lack of understanding.