What it means?

if there were any other facts about where the Luger came that would have given you this feeling. I agree with Marvin on this. It was fairly common for Navy firearms to be Tin plated and even have a variety of other finishes in the 19th century and earlier, but I've never heard of anything like this (original) to a Navy used Luger (30+ years of listening!). I don't think anyone could say for sure who and when the plating was done other than it was not factory original or military authorized and there is tremendous evidence from soldier accounts that GI's had many captured pistols plated after WWII from Paris to New York.


Value ("collector" or otherwise...everyone who aquires things is some type of collector) would IMO be in the range given in the earlier response....if really nice shape and clearly circa 1945 vintage plating maybe more.