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How much a mismatched part on a gun might affect the price is another factor that is impossible to include in the listings. If a major part such as the bolt is not matching, many collectors would not be interested in an item at any price. A bargain shopper looking for a shootable example of an item might not care that no two pieces on a gun have matched numbers. A good thing to remember is that higher the collector demand and price of an item, the more a mismatched part will impact the price.

Luckily for the collectors of U.S. military firearms, we seldom used the practice of numbering any parts but the receiver. There might be assembly or contractor numbers but not serial numbers. Only some early 1911 pistols numbered the slides internally.

I also mention in these pages several recently-imported models. In some cases this importation has caused a significant price reduction due to temporary oversupply of the market. The Russian Model 1891/30 rifles and Yugoslavian Model 59/66 SKS are examples. Other items, like the Swedish Mauser rifles that were imported in quantity in the late 1980s, have disappeared from wholesaler inventory and now command prices significantly higher than only a few years ago.