Yes. That's the story and that's how the market treats restored guns and these are well done guns. If they are tiger striped case colors or otherwise a refinish that can be found fault with, the resale value is even less and in many cases, less than a silver framed original.
It doesn't matter whether it should be that way, doesn't matter how Brit guns are treated, it simply is, and the market is too big to change easily .
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