£200 sounds about right. I think I paid £140 about six or seven years ago for a late 80s one in OK, though definitely used, condition.

They are just not that well known, or therefore popular. They are also big and a bit of an acquired taste. A shame because they are a bloody good rifle, with no obvious sidelever competitors.

A D48/52 is what you’d get if you crossed an HW80 with an HW77 and stuck the cocking lever on the side. That’s not a bad idea, and explains why, at full power (and sensible prices) they were so popular in the US for around 25 years.

Diana list prices in the U.K from the mid-2000s were nonsense dreamed up by idiots.