I once owned a Korth.
I saw it in a pawn shop in Panama City Beach. To my surprise it was priced at only $250. At the time I was in grad school and just about totally broke. I could not buy it but did manage to trade an Ingram Mac 10 or some model for it.
The Ingram was a terrible pistol. It was reliable but huge and awkward to hold. Someone had replaced the factory grips on the Korth with Pachmyers which did not quite fit right. Close but not right.
I needed money and took it to gun shows. I was willing to sell it for far under it’s value but every single dealer would look it up in their blue book and snap a “not interested” even when I offered to take $500 for it. I finally sold it to a non dealer for $400.
If I taken the time to list it in Shotgun news etc., I would have made a killing but I needed the money right then.
I still can’t get over those idiot dealers who were so afraid of taking any chance at all.
There are some out there that only know American guns. Americans make good guns. But so do some other people. I am a gun enthusiast, but on a tight budget. Of the guns I own, 2 are Russian, 2 are Brazilian and 1 is Italian. The Italian I just bought, a Uberti cattleman 1873. I would love to have a Colt SAA, but rumor has it that Uberti makes parts for Colt anyway. So why pay for a name?
CC