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Cheap as chips

INSIGHT

Gun collecting can be an expensive business. We all read the auction reports of some 1920 Woodward over-and-under selling for £35,000 or the King of Italy’s unique Holland & Holland rifle exceeding its estimate by thousands. All we can do is watch and drool.

However, I have been fiddling around with old guns since I was a pre-teen (please don’t tell the 1970s police) and have had enormous amounts of fun with some very inexpensive things.

With a bit of perseverance and a sprinkling of luck, it

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