Collector grade question

[alvin]

I fired 200 rounds from this R9 (detail see shooting column). It's my collector, the condition was VG+ to Exec-. The safety lever broke during the process. The lever on this variation is unnumbered, that's fortunate, but finding a replacement lever is not a very trivial task and will take time -- there are parts donor guns, but usually when a gun starts give away parts, it's in poor shape and the safety lever's condition does not match this gun's condition. Of course, future replacement lever must be period correct, that limits the searching scope.. and,,,, cost, cost, cost,,,, there are many nice guns with nice levers, but they are high cost and their levers are not donors. Temporarily, I put a Bolo lever on it, which does not work well. So, even broke a unnumbered part will create lots of searching work.