My first
 

My first was a 1900 American Eagle restored gun, that i decided to get as a carry gun , that was 17 years ago.

That gun is gone, but the love for lugers remain, as well as crazy idea for carrying one for self defense ;0)

My absolute first Luger was an "Original Mauser Parabellum" (a.k.a. Interarms Luger). That's 1996. It was sold to me as a used gun but it apparently had not been fired by the previous owner, coming with box, manual, etc, everything, even had a small round plastic token with Mauser sign. I was charged $750 (?), it's lots of money for me at that time and it's my most valuable pistol.

It shot great in range. There was only one thing I did not feel comfortable. For unknown reason, the trigger and safety level had no blue but there were not silver bright. Not knowing that's a special kind of finish, I decided to sand them bright. Bought fine sand papers from Walmart and I did the job. The trigger was easy, it's sanded mirror bright. But I could not remove the safety level and had to give up on sanding it.

That gun was long gone, but it's a very impressive pistol.

Kinda sorta , it was in the early 70's and i got it in a trade, it was mismatched and no side plate, 9mm, not alot of finish, not sure of the make. About a week later i sold it to a luger collector named herman for 250.00, a ton of money to me back then. Herman would show it to me months later completely redone and it was a beauty, but i was still amased that he would pay me that much for a luger. I would later go on to find others and sell them to him , allways for a profit. at that time , i know he had over twenty various lugers if not more. I can't really remember alot about the ones i would find and sell to him, but they allways seem to make him happy and turned me a profit. perhaps if i had took the time to do some research, i might have kept one or two. oh well.

Back then a hunded dollar bill had a life expendency of a week and my firs 1906 Frenchy is still alive in my safe!

My first Luger came from Dad, back in 1993 or so. At that time he had accumulated some firearms for 25 years, always dealing with a tight bugdet and my mom complains, and he simply gave them to me. But the Luger always held a special place in his heart. and I still remember the day he brought it home when I was 10 - it looked so HUGE in my child hands...

It is a mismatched and reblued gun, with a Navy sight, but I still have it and won't sell it. Few more joined this one, but it is still Dad's Luger for me.

Douglas.

Mo Old German Grandmother Gave These Works Of Advice
 

Born near Dresden. She told me as long as I had gold I'll always have bread! Unfortunatly I had to replace it years later! Her Uncle Al also passed down some currency. My Mom framed it and that why it in such wonderful comdition. We had a duty to pass our valuables including our lugers with the same respect! I just noticed Mom was born in 1920 the date on the eagle. I'm sure Grandman had to notice it!

Ah, my first was a Dutch DWM KNIL variation. And I shot it regularly for 2 years before realizing it was a relatively rare gun. :)

Eric, I must say I admire your vision on this one. When you introduced gold coins on the forum 2-3 years ago, it was "only" $1000/oz. Hindsight says you're right.

I got to thinking on this a bit, i never realy hung on to the others, more or less bought them to turn a profit, may have fired one or two and that was it. So i would say my luger collecting began, with these two. A 1929 dwm police and 1918 1920 dwm. both i am rather fond of. From now on i am looking out for others. thanks again for all the help.

Beautiful pistols, padredan. I keep thinking I should be shadowing you whilst you hunt down Lugers so that I could learn your secrets! You do keep turning up interesting examples.

michael, fact of the matter is over the years i cannot remember the number of lugers i may have bought and sold, for the most part i really had no interest in them except to turn a profit, which they did. I have been a gun collector for forty years. I recently decided to start collecting lugers, one thing being they are still cheaper to collect , at least around here , than colt saa's or my main interest 1911 and 1911a's . this forum has given me such good information on lugers i now feel confident enoughe to seek them out and have a working knowledge to purchase them.

My first was bought in 1962 in a pawn shop for $35.:o I was in college and had to save for a month to get it. :( It was a worn, brown 30L Commercial with a worn out bore, but I was a proud of it as if it was brand new! :) The bore was so bad that it patterned like a shotgun!:crying: I later traded it off for a Colt SAA.:thumbup: