If rare enough, less condition is acceptable. Remember the police who saved a bunch of C&R pistols? He got a few rare ones. These are rare in the Western world. Chinese don't routinely reblue service guns, so those are still in original condition, not nice condition, but original.
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But he did not have Mauser 6-shot, 20-shot, pre-war Bolo, nor Spanish Azul. And, no Red 9 (Red 9 is relatively common here, but rare there). So, we still have something that he does not have
Weird enough -- he does not .45ACP Shansei,,,, I believe Shansei is only popular in America.