About a year before Fred Wells died, I had the good fortune of going to his gun shop. He gave me and a friend a "cooks tour" we saw many wonderful rifles that he had made. I suspect that the most valuable was a duplicate of one that he made on commission for the King of Sweden. He made two, just in case something happened to the one he shipped to Sweded. He was a true artist in steel, making rifles (actions, barrels et al) from scratch in his shop.