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If you just bought it - way to go ! Someone took really good care of it. They must have wiped all the finger prints off it when putting it away.
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beautiful! Quite a find, for sure. I can't imagine there is another one like it anywhere.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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A neat find, but a little sad that it has not had a life outside of being looked at.
More sad if someone keeps it mint and does not use it.
Good if some hunter has the opportunity to now use it and give it purpose.
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damn shame that- some folks don't know how to leave well enuf alone I guess. RWTF fine looking gun indeed- the case- made by an amatuer cabinet faker.. RWTF
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50 years or so on a basement shelf in Northeast Minneapolis:   1964 V19 Darne in 28 gauge. It was unfired when I got it. Lives in my gun safe, now. The original organic horsey hoove plastic buttplate was shrunk (they all are) and Geoffrey Gournet fitted a new checkered ebony buttplate, which was a factory option. It got a bretelle Darne sling at the same time, another factory available option. Has been fired, but, not much. Best, Ted
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People do buy guns and don't ever use them.
I have a Model 21 that was 'as new' near 60 years after it was made.
It's good when stuff is saved just for me.
A Colt 1911A1 from 1944 resides here. Apparently, it was sold through the NRA way back when for a few bucks. It's about the only gun I don't shoot regularly, although I have shot it. It's not about resale either, and it's a break from my usual pattern. It's just that 99% examples of that historic pistol are not encountered every day.
I should sell it. But I never will.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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I have owned a number of post world war 2 Webleys that have either been unfired or nearly so. Cant really explain why other than perhaps upland hunting was already on the way out by then. And who wanted a double when all that firepower was available in an automatic.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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