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"You'll do as an arms-expert, Mr. Rand," he said. "And you'd win the piggy-bank. It seems that after Mr. Fleming bought them, he took them apart, and found, just as you say, that the screw-threads had been machine-cut, and that the working-parts were interchangeable from one pistol to the other.
H. Beam Piper - Murder in the Gunroom
I won't bother taking these things apart, but if I did, I'd bet all Wall Street to Junior's piggy-bank that I'd find that the screws were machine-threaded and the working-parts interchanged. I've heard about fakes like these," he named a famous, recently liquidated West Coast collection "but I'd never hoped to see an example like this." Goode gave a hacking chuckle.
H. Beam Piper - Murder in the Gunroom
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