How Many Lugers Do The Average Member Collect
 

I wondered if an inquiry as to how many and what type our average member owns. I own 8 and hope to make it 9 real soon!

4 Total

65

I do know yours are some of the Finest!!

You are very kind, Eric, but yours are quite awesome too.
And the collections some of our members here have, are simply museum grade.
No matter how many, or how perfect, there will always be some one with better Lugers. :)

You also are way too kind and yes it took me 2 ex wives to finally find my best and last I pray!!

45 - Less than 1 per year for 54 years of collecting. Oh well, 45 is the reciprocal of 54:)!

52 - most are not expensive

I have a large number of luger holsters. If only if I had a luger for each holster. Maybe I will win the lottery.

32 and a large collection of mostly american commercial luger holsters (70+) and quite a few military luger holsters. I had a collection of other German WW1 and WW2 weapons but have sold them off ( 35 of them) Expect I will sell the lugers one of these days. Getting old. Have been collecting around 50 years. Bill

I don't know.

Was around 23, but I have bought and sold a few, so I don't know (and obviously i am not home to check)

:)

Ed

... :eek: ...

I only have 4, but always on the alert for another "find".

Neil

I figure my kids can have fun disposing of them.

Of course, I have left info on the various aspects of them, when acquired and possible value. Also a list of a couple of people to contact, a couple of venues to sell them, and especially a list of who not to contact.

I was told its not the size but the quality from a man who owned more than anyone else R.S.

I was told by an old sage, Orv Reichert, if you have one Luger, you are a novice collector. If you have two Lugers, you are a collector. If you have three or more, you are an advanced collector. Well I guess that makes me an advanced collector. :)

If you suffer from O.C.D. 'Obsessive Compulsive Disorder' You never have enough!!! My wife Debbie suggested 'Luger Anonomous'

Hi, my name is Mike , and I'm a Lugerholic.

At some point in life you will realize you can't own them all and you will need therapy, good luck to you and your family.

Harry

And thats all that really counts! I am happy but looking isn't a sin!

20-25, but unlike Ron, most of mine are reproductions. I can't afford 'em anymore...at least the ones that would fit (condition wise) in my collection.

Status as Pre-Novice means 0 Lugers.

I'm in that category at the moment, but realize that because of how I feel about Lugers, the eventual arrival of my permit, and the fact that I'm putting out bids, my status may sublimate directly to "advanced" in a very short time span, perhaps overnight! Always thought Lugers were the coolest of the iconic guns ( Colt Peacemaker, M1911, Winchester '94, etc.) ever since I was a little kid. And , yes, I'm 60 now. The ongoing realization that life is short---and You're not my mom! (Mother actually would have been OK with it, but you know what I mean.)

And I'll take this opportunity to thank the forum, its hard working moderators and patrons, and don't forget my fellow members, for providing a fantastic body of information, wisdom in applying it, and sharing the spark I know we all have.

As a Skeptic, I love open inquiry, and it is one of my favorite things to follow the threads about unusual markings, and how the entire community here contributes relevent (or not) tidbits to a case, increasing everyone's experience and knowledge. Love it when better data comes from out of the blue, changing what we thought was, to what we now think is.




Reciprocal of 54 is 1/54. I know there's a name for switching digits, it's on the tip of my tongue... Anagram? Kind of, but no, another word.

Dyslexia!

Transposed digits?

One less than I want..... Always....

FN

I have decided to collect enough Lugers.

Not too many, and not too few...

Just so that they are the right ones!

Cheers...

Marc

Are there more catridge counter lugers out there or GL presentation lugers?

Eric,

Well we know there were 50 Cartridge Counters built and their serial numbers. How many survived intact??? Don't know.

How many pistols there are with GL inscribed on them?? Hundreds?? Imponderable! Better questions: How many are real? And, what do the initials GL really mean?

John

I had over 30 at one time, picking up everything I could get a great deal on when I started collecting. After I settled down and realized what I wanted to focus on, I consolidated down to about 10 quality pieces. And yes, I regret every single one that I ever traded or sold to improve my collection. I am a lot more discerning and selective now, thanks in a large part to knowledge gained on these forums and from the books.

The term 'Survived' alway intriqued me! Take the 1000 cartidge counters. Survived what? Really how many are recorded in one way or another! Thank God one of our family has taken it on himself to do an expert job to take on the task of authenticating the Test Luger beauties. That would be Ron Wood. Another to do an even giant herculian task the substatuation of Krieghoffs undertaken by one of our finest. Then we have Joop and Don tracking down Mausers and their relatives. In the last few years we have evolved from Danzig to whatever will be published this year. I think thats whats makes is to interesting and constantly evolving. Each one of us are in one way or another contributing with every post, questioning or disagreement. Please keep it up!!

Owning Lugers is like having children. Each unique having their own personal traits. Each has its own feel, worth and individual beauty. How can I compare my 1900 Test piece with my 1920 9mm luger carbine. I have never sold a single one. It would be like giving one of children for adoption!

Eric I though you were going to "Adopt" me. Promises,Promises.

I have already had 3 wives, 5 lugers ahead!

I really don't know. Most of my Lugers are in transit. I have a C93 Borchardt and a 1937 HK all matching shooter on hand. Incoming are two Persian and a 1917 DWM Artilleries; two standard W+F 1906/29 plus two out of three extant Swiss National Match W+F pistols and a putative W+F 9mm prototype in the correct serial number range; two more nice prewar HK pistols; a Dutch Mauser and a glossy 1997 Mauser reissue; and a 1900 Commercial. I think that's it for now.

What's the matter, Michael, no Russian? Regards, Norm

Lets not forget the French. Jerry Lewis, They adored Him !

As every schoolchild knows, France is ahead of Russia by 138 years. Looking at the French guns in my collection, I expect the Russians to catch up in early XXIInd century.

What I need in Lugers is not more provenance, but better function. Getting my P08 to feed and eject as well as my P210 would be quite a feat.

All I can say is that every time I sell one I regret it later, so to be happy I will just keep buying :) . I am really concentrating on the Portuguese lugers now.

Vern