Good points Chris, although I don't think the fact that the gun is packed in broken down form is necessarily a negative as the Lincoln was designed to be broken down and reassembled easily. Also, if you think about of it, a box that would take the intact pistol would be massive with a lot of empty space.

I can't understand why the label is so faded compared to the general box condition. It's amost as though someone has had a go with felt tip pens and then left it in the sun to "age". Labels are always printed with pigment inks which do not fade anywhere near as easily as pen inks.