Just adding to the discussion...Here's a very high quality Ford BLE..one side has the intercepting sear, the other side had it removed for some strange reason. You would never have been able to tell the gun was missing its interceptor unless you pulled the stock. My point ealier was on English made boxlocks, the price seem to elevate slightly when the gun is equipped with intercepting sears....on continental guns, they are common place and nobody seems to value them anymore than a standard boxlock. German boxlocks seem to be equipped with them in every grade, I once had a Sauer "Habicht" model that was bottom of the barrel for the Sauer line...it still had Krupp barrels and intercepting sears.