You may well be right Gavin, but I would like to see them go together for sentimental reasons. I have taken advice from various people regarding price, including some who have bought the same rifle in the past year and have paid close to £1k for examples nowhere near as good as this one. That's in the UK too. Prices are firmer in Germany and the US. I genuinely believe this is one of the finest examples left anywhere and if it doesn't make top money I will be happy to keep it. I have owned scores of fine airguns since I was a lad and now at 53, this is the last one I have left.