FrankenSTEEN not Frankenstein
goldwinghg, I am wit Green Frog and, for that matter, Sevens.
I'm BIG on collecting Model 39s and I just wouldn't want one, or two Bolles' frames.
While I've not seen the advertisement to which you refer, usually there's some sort of oblique reference about the Bolles being a "prototype" which, I infer, means a connection to Smith & Wesson, itsownself. At other times one need not infer anything, a direct connection with SnW is flat-out stated.
IMNSHO, as a collector piece the Bolles is dead in the water.
As a practicable (look it up) matter it weighs more than the real thing. That'd play big if a .45 ACP but we're talking 9mm, here, and muzzle flip ain't a huge problem with nines.
And while we're on the "real thing" thing: It just ain't. So the heavily researched collector will shy from it (as they have over the years, IMNSHO, as evidenced by a falling price - for it once carried a price tag twice that of the present).
Bottom line? Green Frog has an excellent advice: Should you really want it, go for it (or something like that; I think). But just don't expect to rake in the BIG bucks someday (And, puh-lease remember that had this investor bought all means of el cheapo supremo $0.25 stocks, as did others, I'd buy dat island once owned by duh pimp and his mistress).
And now ...
Later - DC
