Chuck,

I think there was one question, left unanswered...

Did you bag this great luger in the trade for a recorder (i.e. audio equipment) or for a recorder (one of those wooden, flute/type instruments) ???

If you say wooden flute thingy, I think a couple of our advanced collectors will just pass out... :D

p.s. It might be time to think about an insurance policy on this luger. Since it's value appears to have sky-rocketed since you nabbed it in that trade in the 1960's.

Regards,

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Hi Pete,

What is a wooden flute type recorder?

The recorder in question was a Tanberg Reel-to-Reel. In those days, voice recorders were large and unwieldly. The owner of the luger wanted the recorder and I wanted the luger. After several weeks of discussions over a few (many) beers, the trade was made. In all honesty, I thought the trade was straight up and fair (we both walked away happy). It was within the past week, after your fellows shocked me, that I realized I had the better of the deal. I would share the windfall with the guy with my recorder, if I could find him.

WR offered to trade me an AKAI recorder (with manual)for the luger. Unfortunately (for him) I have advanced to the state-of-the-art 8-track.

I am still amazed at how much information is still available on these old pieces. I would have thought most of the records were destroyed during the war.

Roger on the insurance policy. It will reside in the safe deposit box until I make a decision to sell.

Well, expecting snow today so I guess I had better have another cup up joe and another layer of warm clothes before I start shoveling again.

regards,

chuck,

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Another type of recorder.

Thanks Todd,
Is that a 7.62mm or 8mm.
chuck,

That, good sir, is a fabulously rare example of a .577/.450 chambering. Utilising the same cartridge as the 1871 Martini-Henry rifle, it was used by British intelligence agents as a weapon of assassination, last-resort self-defence, and suicide. Interestingly enough, it was also a functional wind instrument.

Note the early flash hider design and vented forearm grip.

=)

I think the venting of the gases were painful and that is why few were made, let alone sold...

:D