Foolishness...
 

Take a look at e-Bay item # 6605470745...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...0%3D%26fvi%3D1

Some folks are throwing away good money for "Black Widow" grips that are really poorly made (maybe Russian...?)...

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/bad_bw_grips.jpg

Pete, those are not BW grips... those are eastern bloc early replacement grips... not repro... probably russian in origin. They are functional, not pretty.

I believe John is correct; Russian origin.

I have a pair of those. Not pretty.

Luke

Note that of the 16 bidders not one of them asked what they were. I guess because they were black and in Germany they must be original Luger grips. Too much money too little schmardts.

How much did they overpay then?

About $152.50

Haha, Beautiful.

I understood that the Eastern-block methods of luger storage meant the wooden grips either didn't survive or were discarded (lugers stored in oil-filled barrels). This meant that they needed to create a large volume of replacement grips when the stuff was sold during the 1990's. :D

Curious...you would have thought a mold they made up would have the checkering more accurate to the originals.

When I try to follow the line of the checkering, I get sea-sick...

Maybe too much vodka in the mold-making shop...:D

I notice the seller made no claim that they were "black widow", just said they were "black grips". Think I'll dig out my pair of "Russians" and put them on ebay!:evilgrin: