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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Quote:
Originally Posted by competentone
You have to understand firearms collecting is different than car collecting.
Things like the Indian Tacks can actually have historical meaning; for someone to add them to a firearm that never had them historically, is to commit an act of fraud.
That is what someone has done with this firearm; they have made it appear to have a "heritage" that is different than the one it actually had.
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Agree totally and lets go one step futher. He has taken a very nice Carlos Gove caplock rifle and destroyed much of its "patina" by changing it to something that it never was.
Hope it does not sell and he ends up living with it for a long time.
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