Larry, I would rather pay the big buck for a Purdey with a good coat of light rust that had never been opened up by an idiot than to pay the same for a shiny Purdey with all evidence of heavy use and abuse covered up by gosh knows whom. As Daryl implies, the buyer knows the difference and the good guns sell for multiples of the price of bad ones. By the way, do you own a wall thickness gauge and a zero to one inch vernier caliper? Do you use them when you look at a gun you are thinking of purchasing?