Those were the days
 

I just threw a copy of Datig's Luger Pistol on the "for sale" board. While thumbing through the pages I found this little item... I think the prices seem pretty fair... for 1962.

I remember them well. Stacks of 98K Mausers and .303 Enfields were in the department stores for $19.95. That was about the time I picked up my first Luger, a 1916 Erfurt, matched throughout including the mag and about 98% original finish........for $85. Resold and long gone. I would have done better holding on to it than playing the stock market. Bless the old German saying, "We grow so soon old, and so late smart".

When I first started collecting, a fellow member of WAC summed it up this way: When I bought my first matching luger it cost me $70.00, a month's wages. When you bought your first matching luger it cost you $900.00, a months wages. Today, we buy matching lugers at $2,000 and up.... a months wages (of course this was 1989). I wonder what ever happend to Murray Jacobson. He was a fixture at WAC in the years I was there, 1989-1991