This is getting off topic.

Mk1 Airsporter is the most graceful mass-produced air rifle made.

Graceful. Everything swoops and tapers and just fits together fluidly. It has grace.

Not most appealingly Gothick (Mk2 Service?). Not most Baroque (1950s Diana 50?). Not best handling (lots of contenders). Not best looking (ditto). Not even most classical (FWB Sport?, Beeman R1?), just graceful.

Certainly not "best". Not even necessarily best-looking. Just most graceful.

Ironically, the Airsporter when introduced seemed jet-age modern, like contemporary cars, despite their pre-war underpinnings (Google "Bristol 401" - lovely and then some). Later it seemed old. Now it seems historic.

It helps that the early 'sporters are also built well, and shoot fairly well.