I have been buying and trading guns for a very long time and I have noticed [as the years roll by] that something a friend told me over forty years ago is true. Guns prices run in cycles. At one time Model 70s are the hot ticket and later it's 1911s and so on it goes. I bought my first Luger in a gun shop in 1959 for $42 and probably overpaid. You could buy them from that guy in Virginia for a little less. It was a different world back then and if you didn't live then, you will never understand it or even believe it. We are talking about silver dollars here, not this monopoly paper we are using today. The analogy about old cars is right on. Men in there middles years now with a little extra cash don't want a Model T or a model A. They want a muscle car from the 60s. It was the car they wanted in high school but couldn't afford. I dabbled in antique phones for a time and I remember when an old oak wall phone could bring several hundred dollars but kids today don't even know what they are. I had one in my garage for many years and I would a ask a young person if they wanted to talk on it and they didn't even know it was a phone. The antique phone of today is what they used on Happy Days. Getting back to guns I notice that the price of older Colt single actions is dropping. The men of today didn't grow up watching Hoppy, Gene or Roy. The American said a few months ago that the Colt Python had surpassed the SA in collectability.
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