OT - C96 need value advise

[Roadkill]

You have a point. It gets complicated. To a collector anything less than a collection piece is not a collection piece. Period. And that makes sense. They pay big bucks for them and lots of effort to insure what they have is as stated and valued accordingly. Where lots of well intentioned folks mess up and lose money is buying and paying more for a not collection gun but one well above a mongrel shooter which is mismatched, reblued, customized, pesonalized, nickel plated, cromed ect., thinking that since its way way above the mongrel level and almost (that's the killer- almost) perfect its value should approximate the value of a collector gun. They don't. Its still a great good looking historical firearm, but not a collection piece. Folks need to make up their mind before they start looking. Do you want a collector or a shooter? A collector gun can go down in value by shooting it, but shooter will never go up in value except by overall supply and demand.

rk