Some years ago; in a Cabela's store I was working in; a young woman and her husband came into the store with a nice old handgun:
We did an appraisal on it for her, and as she was leaving, she said "Does it help the value if Buffalo Bill gave this to my grandfather?" We said "Wow, Do you have any documentation?" She said "No; grandfather used to sell livestock hay to Buffalo Bill, and he was given the gun by him as a token of his appreciation."
We told her unfortunately, without some kind of provenance, the value is the same.
Ah well.......such is life.
Sam
