Faked, refinished and boosted Lugers.

[Orv Reichert]

I think it is important to report and fully describe these 'juiced' guns, including serial numbers.

In the P38 world, I have maintained a database for 25 years. I now have more than 19,000 entries and can, often, report that I have seen or had a gun reported BEFORE it acquired that rare mark!
EXAMPLE

In 1983, I examined an AC41 on a dealers table at the Sacramento Show. A year later, the same dealer had the same gun on display but now it was the "rare SA marked P38...Brandenburg-Berlin..the only example known!" When 'burned' in AUTOMAG, the dealer told me "Gee....I sold it last year and when I bought it this month, I did not know it was the same gun!" [yeah?...right!!]

The same dealer had previously sold a Mauser banner P08 with the identical markings!

The point of all this is...let us help each other? When MONEY is involved...ethics go right out the window!

Orv

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