1917 Erfurt

You know things are out of hand when collectors have to even catergorize other collectors! This is what I've been talking about. I find the term advanced collector to be about a mis-used and mis-understood as the other slogans this hobby has grabbed hold of over the last 20-30 years (getting much worse the last 10 or so) like, collector grade, vet bring back, non-import (what does that mean were German Lugers made in the US at some time in the past?). Most of the people I consider true advanced collectors (in many fields not just Lugers) have been out front and looking at things in new ways and finding new importance and significance to aspects and features of the items they collect. My concern is this labeling of everything and parrot mentality repeating back what every seller is saying to sell at top dollar and every buyer is saying to get a steal. Judge the piece and understand it...it should only be important to you what the Luger is and is not.