[napp]

You covered the bases pretty well with your post. I suppose my question was more rhetorical than a real question.

I can't quibble about the rareness or collectible factor; but those guns are not usually available on the "new" market, anyway. Pahoo, also made some good points about some earlier guns being more desirable then current offerings.

My rant wasn't intended to include those instances. Rather it was directed at those cases where we are comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges.