I experienced the negative bias on a 27" barreled H. Atkin BLE 12 ga. that I sold via auction this past spring. Barrel length and gauge were the negatives. It was lettered from the current records holder as being made and sold for a particular individual in 1938 with 27" barrels, one of a matched pair. It had simple border engraving and straight grained wood. Nothering fancy but with bright original case coloring remaining. It was in excellent original shape. Someone got lucky on it as it sold below $1K. Things more than evened out for me with other guns in the auction, however, but they were all subgauges. Gil