Restoration/Restamping Question.

What Thor was trying to say by being diplomatic, was that in the collecting field of guns, and specifically of Lugers, a restore that then attempts to have all matching numbers is wrong.

That by applying numbers and then making it look original, then upon later selling it (maybe two people down the way), it might get sold by someone as "mint" and this would be wrong. Restoring to look good is all right, but by changing numbers to match is a bit too much.


In the collector car market, stamping matching VIN numbers on a Shelby Mustang would be considered bad.


Finding matching parts and putting them on, I don't look at as so bad, because they are original parts, but most collectors would frown on this method also.


Ed