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That sounds more like a rhetorical question than one for me Joe. I can't answer for the vagaries of supply and demand for sale of personal property. But maybe it's not all that complicated ... maybe all those previous owners died, huh? Couldn't take the guns with them, ya know? Or maybe they just got too old and tired to carry all that weight, and gave them up?? Maybe they died of heart attacks while carrying all that weight???
This ground has been plowed and re-plowed way too often by detractors and defenders with little new coming of it. All I can tell you for sure is, mine's not for sale, and I can't see how it ever will be.
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Yeah, I had one too.....for a short while. But when I'd lay down my Parker's or Lefevers or English guns and pick it up I'd darned near sprain my back. Seems I still have an eye for slim waisted, well endowed blondes rather than those who could break every bone in my body in a wrestling match. 
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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Oh yeah, me too, though hair color's no matter for me.  Guess yours wasn't a slim-waisted 21 ... my back hasn't suffered much from raising this one.  
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Now Gunflint, you're sure trying to tempt me to come over to the dark side, aren't you. PS: Disregard 90% of what I say, have just come from four days in hospital with pneumonia. But the other 10% still stands.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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Sam Snead said,"You got to dance with who you brung". 
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Not say'n the Model 21 isn't a perfectly fine, high quality gun. And, of course, everyone is free to like whatever gun they wanna like.
This is probably considered blasphemy, but compared to a Fox, the action on a 21 sure looks big and clunky to my eye.
JMHO
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Joe once referred to my Winchester 21 Trap as a "Sherman Tank".....right after I won a shootoff with it. I love my Fox, Parker, Reilly hammer gun, etc. but the 21's would remain if I had to reduce the collection. Anyway, where would we all be if there wasn't a variety of good double guns to admire, critique, love and insult?
Being an old duck & goose hunter, I have a soft spot for the heftier guns. Fond I am of Peter Paul Rubens' paintings also.
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... have just come from four days in hospital with pneumonia. Sorry to hear you were knocked down for a while Joe -- good time for a big Thanksgiving dinner to help restore.
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What a beautifull shotgun CfC. I cant remember the last time anything made me so want it. (But mine would have a dearly departed GSP on it)
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What a beautifull shotgun CfC. I cant remember the last time anything made me so want it. (But mine would have a dearly departed GSP on it) Your mention of your dog makes me guess you saw the other pics in the engraving thread Homer, but here they are in case not. It's fun showing off Ray Cover's work. Wish I had the equipment and skills for better photos. Jay    
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