A number just caught my eye: 156 people viewing this forum! At the same time, 202 were viewing general airgun and 33 sales.

Meanwhile, my vintage gallery has attracted more than 800 members and rising (some will no doubt be duplicates when people forget their login!).

OK, so many of them will be the same people and lockdown has meant many folk have more time on their hands... but still!

The .co.uk airgun forum has a lot of activity in its collectables section these days too.

Speculation is a bit of a fool's pastime, I dare say, but is it a wild exaggeration to imagine there might be some sort of golden age of collecting on the horizon?