My first Luger, a 1940 42

[wlyon]

This is an area that has been discussed many times. Personally to me it is a collectible. It looks like an honest 1940 that had a sideplate replaced. I think if we knew the number of truly all matching lugers we would be surprised at the relatively low number. There are certaintly many more perfectly matched lugers now than when I started collecting 50 years ago. Any way nice luger. And yes the sideplate will reduce the value but to me not the collectibility. Also 42 was an official replacement code but seems like smaller numbers ? Bill

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by wlyon

There are certaintly many more perfectly matched luger now than when I started collecting 50 years ago.

There are more perfectly matching Lugers now than when they were made over 50 years ago...