Steve,
Busy day and I didn't have the chance to reply. Eric explained it perfectly, unfortunately it sent the entire Long Rifle collecting field into a tail spin. First it saturated the market, it took 3 auctions to get through the collection, afterwards a lot of inventory was left on the table after the dust settled. There were some great rifles, then there were other pieces that spanned the gambit of very little to W.T.F in the restoration department. I picked up a A. Schweitzer rifle that was in pretty good shape for a very reasonable price, parallel with the balance of the inventory it wasn't all there historically. It was reconverted, the side plate was a reproduction and the trigger guards was from something else.
The second repercussion was the doubt it sent through the collecting community. The individuals that acquired the pieces for the Doctor appeared to have taken advantage of him, and benefited by acquiring the excellent pieces at reduced rates while selling the less than desirable pieces at inflated prices to the Doctor. I personally don't know this to be true but the evidence is difficult to ignore.
That's the rest of the story.
Bucjk
