I spoke with Jim Julia personally, by telephone, some weeks before the auction about guaranteeing ownership, due to the convoluted story about it's loss. We also spoke about the insurance company's part in potentially wanting it back, since they had paid the claim to Nash.
He told me that they had been through this same kind of thing with insurance companies many times, with other items sent in for auction, and that the company in question in this particular instance didn't seem to be in existence any longer. His final statement about it was that, when Julia's announced the auction date, they would be backing the full ownership of the gun by whoever bought it, 100%. He meant that the onus was on Julia's at that point, and that they stood behind their declaration of a clean title completely.
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