My first rifle was a mossberg bolt .22 long gone
my first pistol was a S&W Model 28. I sold it to a coin dealer after leaving the force. 25 years later I found out he still had it with original box. I had fired it about 200 times, him about 6. He loaded it with hollow point .357's and put it in his coin safe and never touched it. I traded an exact same model to him to get it back.
He asked my why I wanted it when the one I was trading him was identical. I told him I am a gun guy and it wasn't the same, because the one I was getting back was my original gun! Once I got it back I got a factory letter on it, even though I knew where I bought it, just because.