seattle area collectors
 

I lived in Seattle 1989-91. Does anyone remember or know Maurice Jacobson/Morry Jacobson? Member of Washington Arms Collectors. Always had a table full of Lugers? Just curious what happened to him. It's been years. He sold me my first rightous Luger, a 1916 Efert, all matching including mag, that he'd left in the trunk of his car over night after returning from the Reno gun show and it went from 99.9% to 80% in about 8 hours. I cleaned the rust off and traded it for a zf-41 sniper rifle, traded that for a G-43 in Dallas, traded that for an FNFAL in Dallas, traded that for a divorce... in 1992 in San Antonio.

Or how about Bill Demander? The 98k guy? The first rightous 98k I ever bought, a bnz43, that I traded for a mismatched Low Turret Mount in Dallas, that I traded for a rightous Persian LP.08 rig in San Antonio that I traded for a divorce in 1992 in San Antonio?

Whatever happened to these guys?

Bill Demander lives in Astoria, Oregon. He has a regular table at the Portland Expo gun show, some rifles, holsters, misc. and memorabilia, some pistols often including intriguing Lugers which he finds I-don't-know-where and sells for very reasonable prices. I've bought from him, sold to him, missed great bargains he sold to someone else. One of the good guys.

--Dwight

Another good guy is/was Col. Mel P. Is he still around? TH

Lugerdoc,

I believe Col. Mel passed on a few years ago. He was a great guy and always managed to come up with some neat stuff. He was a fixture at the Washington Arms Collector's shows, and I always enjoyed talking to him.