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Quality to me means using high carbon steel and following the blueprint very closely. In the old days you also had a great many old guys working on those benches assembling the revolvers and every one of them knew every single place where they would find burrs and have a fine stone to smooth and fit it to that frame. I remember reading that the gentlemen who assembled Colt revolvers in the first half of the 20th century were given a bin full of parts and told to fit everything perfectly with little regard given to how many hours that might take. The tolerances on the parts were such that almost every part was oversized and was intended to be fit by a real gunsmith and not merely "assembled" and boxed up. I think these are the reasons people will pay current prices on fine old revolvers. Firearms like these will probably never be built again.
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