It's still the aftermath of the world wide crisis. Over here it's improving a little. On all collectors markets only the top stuff seems to be selling, although at deflated prices (see the 1907 .45). The low-end stuff, be it guns, holsters, cars or whatever people collect, is almost impossible to sell and the stuff in the middle also doesn't seem to move.
You can see that dealers and trader/collectors are struggling to find the market values again. Sometimes crap is offered at rediculously high prices and sometimes little gems can be found for next to nothing.
If you have a good financial buffer, now is the time to do some interesting purchases.
This kind of crisis repeats itself in a cycle of some 7 - 8 years, one of the reasons why this one hit so hard was because it was long overdue. The millennium issues kept the markets going during times when another crisis was already knocking on the door, postponing it for a couple of years.
Put the next one in your appointment book, scheduled to arrive between 2015 and 2017
