"modernized" matchlocks?

[Peter Bleed]

What is the 1) legal, and 2) collector interest  in Japanese matchlock firearms that were "modernized" in Japan? I ask this because in the old days I discovered - and acquired - a couple of guns that seems to have been altered to fire with percussion caps. I also have a teppo that carries what looks like a Murata-style bolt action. I have seen guns like these in Takuda's book, but I wonder if they are at all legal in Japan and/or if they have any collector interest? 

Peter

[Kiipu]

FYI, the Murata-style hunting guns were still being made into the 1930s.

[Bugyotsuji]

In my limited experience those altered or modernized guns, even if they have proper registration paperwork (and many nowadays are more likely to be refused) are generally not of any great worth in Japan.

[Peter Bleed]

Firends,

Thanks for these answers and reactions. It certainly seems that the "Japanese" view of what is interesting and collectible inthe firearms area is simple, clean, and "normal." We foreigners, of course, react positively to stuff that is "odd".

Registration and handling of firearms in Japan sure seems complicated, especially fior those of us that have come out of the American local gun show scene.

Peter