JD - Too late, I have two Webley and Scott .455 semi-auto pistols and a French Model 1892 revolver though I haven't yet gotten as esoteric as Chris' guns...
I will echo JD's comments that they are great people and fellow gun enthusiasts.
Alvin - My, good eye. It is a Rolex, a gift from my father when I went to undergraduate (my father's a peasant farmer from Mainland China and he always wanted one and that was his watch after he came to the US and opened his own business). When I went to university he gave it to me as a lucky charm and as a memento and it followed me from Idaho, with my BA to London with my MA and PhD. I speak to my father every week still and, as much as I love these guns, that watch (though inexpensive for a Rolex) is something I will treasure more than my collection of pistols. Sorry, bit sappy, but my father stood behind me my entire life and, though he didn't understand it, defended my choice of Roman history as a PhD to my mum!
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Michael
Nos morituri te salutant - Supposed saying of the gladiators to the emperor ('We, who are about to die, salute you.')
'We are the lantern bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind' - From Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers
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