Similar thing happened to a friend. He owns a telecom company and travels all over selling systems to who ever. He also loves guns. A bank chain with a branch office in a small town of about 10,000 in N. Alabama decided to upgrade phone systems. The old bank building was built in about 1920. Harold goes, in makes survey, writes up bid, and asks "Got any guns?". Sure did. Went back to the now unused vault with an ancient clerk showing the way, opened a drawer, pulled out a mint 1911 Colt 45. It had been bought by the origonal owner in 1920 and had never left the building, never been fired, had origonal ammo with it. Harold never told me what it cost him but you would argue passionately it had to have been reworked because of the condition. No wear whatsoever. And how will the collectors know the difference between a 1860 Colt Army made in 1860 and one made in 1985 in 2525?
RK
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