View Single Post
Unread 11-25-2018, 05:28 PM   #18
Member
Wild Skies
PGCA Member
 
Greg Baehman's Avatar

Member Info
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 2,236
Thanks: 1,142
Thanked 3,603 Times in 984 Posts

Default

It all depends upon what your definition of original is.


Most would agree that the definition of original is that the product is and remains as it left the factory.


Most would agree that to a true collector, originality trumps everything.


In the case of the subject Parker Bros. gun that was altered from the way it left the factory by upgrading it to an A-1 Special vs. a Parker Reproduction A-1 Special, that is in as it left the factory condition, it is then obvious that only one of these guns is original. Therefore, by being original, the Parker Reproduction A-1 Special will be the greater value -- today, tomorrow and for the long haul.

__________________
Wild Skies
Since 1951
Greg Baehman is offline   Reply With Quote