Would You Have Bid on This AE?
I had considered bidding on this 1906 AE but there was simply too much wrong with it. I called and asked questions that revealed what the pictures don't.
The barrel is a replacement which the auction house noted. It's numbered 992 and the bore is "bright with dark spots". The front sight appears to be a Marble type replacement. What they didn't note was that the grip safety is broken - likely the spring - and strawed parts have been refinished. With premiums, the final price is right at $1800 which, IMO, is too much for a shooter. https://www.proxibid.com/Firearms-Mi...ation/57240147 |
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People weeks from now won't have any idea what you're talking about without pics. :)
Here's two. I don't think the price is that outrageous. |
When a nice matching Swiss Luger can be purchased for about the same money, I think $1800 for a mismatched, partially refinished AE with a broken grip safety is quite high. Just my opinion.
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Most of the time when I see a grip safety like that, it isn't a broken spring, it just wasn't reassembled correctly. Many years ago I bought an '06 AE pretty cheaply at a country gun and tackle shop because the owner thought the grip safety was broken. When I got home it turned out I just needed to properly install the safety.
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Doubs, I look at it like this: If I were a 'collector' (I'm not), and did not have an AE, I would accept this Luger as a 'placeholder' until I could buy/trade up to a better example. A bird in the bush etc. $1500 isn't all that bad a price. If you're on Proxibid you have to accept their commission. It doesn't enter into what the Luger is worth. ;)
But I'm not a collector; I'm an accumulator. I wouldn't mind buying a Luger such as this. I like the Navy-length barrel. And the price wouldn't bother me. I had thought of lining my coffin with hundred dollar bills but I decided that goose down would be warmer. ;) |
Sheepherder, I already have a very nice matching AE that I bought years ago. So, for a shooter, I bought one of the East German VoPo Lugers and had a 6" .30 caliber barrel installed. Not too long ago I had G.T. install a 4" 9mm barrel on a WW1 Artillery receiver that someone had chopped the barrel off just in front of the rear sight mount. Now I have a shooter that I can swap uppers on and use either .30 caliber or 9mm as I please.
The AE is first and the converted VoPo with the 6" barrel is second. The shooter with both uppers cost me far less than $800 total. https://i.imgur.com/SjKBaEA.jpg https://i.imgur.com/8CtfJJP.jpg |
I believe that 30 is what our late friend Hugh Clark called an Armadillo special.
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The first bullet was FMJ and passed through without effect. The second bullet was a 90 grain soft nose hollow point that I had loaded for him. It turned the groundhog inside out, stopping it in it's tracks. Many years before that, my father had told me that a .30 Luger with FMJ bullets was not so good but with an expending bullet was "wicked". I agree. |
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