About 1989 I examined a five gauge set of graded 21s. Don't remember the grade but they all were alike and had gold inlays. They belonged to an owner of a plantation in SC where I had been invited to shoot doves by the manager, a good friend. He asked me to come into the gun room and help him pick out a gun to shoot. He said that the owner had told him he could use any gun in the gun room that day for the dove shoot. There were A-frame gun racks all in the room with wooden pegs to hold the guns horizontally. On one rack was the set of 21s. Those guns had been used, cared for, but used. I fondled them wistfully, realizing the value of what I was seeing.
I personally don't care for the gaudiness of the guns pictured in the Julia's advertisement. Small gold inlays can be tasteful. Overdone, they remind me of Mr. T. I don't, however, belittle the seller for never using them, different strokes for different folks. It's just not my cup of tea. He will realize many, many thousands of dollars more from this auction because he never assembled them, tho'.
SRH
