[Nick de Guerre]

Bill,

Maybe I should qualify my point, as it certainly can't be diffinitively proven.

It's my assertion, based on a sizable pool of shared data (I am one of several contributors), that this is the case. I am aware of Bob Elliott's estimates, and his books remain the standard from which Lefever information is judged. But his last book was published some 18+ years ago, and much has been learned since then. Certainly, the internet was much newer then, and it has hugely enhanced our knowledge base.

An older collector told me a while back that Elliott was working from a list of only 400+ guns when he produced his estimates. We have seen several thousand now, and have an even clearer picture of what the arc of production looked like. People would likely be surprised as some of what is rare, and what isn't.

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NDG