A beautiful but very old 500 yo painting just sold for half a BILLION dollars. Who would have thought? Quality always has value just like this rare DaVinci. As time passes there will be less and less of these quality guns, many of which are artistry themselves. With a rising population, it will be about supply and demand, in my humble opinion. I guess I'm not as pessimistic as some of you other old guys ready for the skilled nursing and extended care facilities.
Sadly, and hopefully unlike guns, these beautiful old painting gain more value from who owned them rather than who painted them, or their subject matter.
On to double guns, I think most double guns are beautiful, even my old Winchester model 24 has a type of beauty, but perhaps I feel that way because she was my first!
I really don't own any collectible doubles, well maybe one, but every single one of them is precious to me, and hopefully some of them will be to my children, my oldest son seams to be smitten by the lore of the double gun, but the other two not so much, it seams like if you can't wash the blood off with a garden hose, and throw it in the back of the truck it's not a good gun.
A couple of years ago I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, turns out it was Mercury poisoning, but it has taken two years to recover, this year I have done more duck hunting than I have in a few years, and it feels so good to be out in the field with my new favorite sxs, I call her the "Magic stick", she is one of those guns that just points it's self, and never (almost) misses, most young shooters don't appreciate the feel and balance of a gun like that.
TM
