GI Take home paper on Luger
 

On e bay:-

http://cgi.ebay.com/WWII-USGI-Takeho...1%7C240%3A1318

Was self-certification of your own possession a common occurance?

Just curious.

I suppose if Lt. Sanborn was the officer assigned to certify bring-backs for his unit, he could do it for himself.

Technically I doubt that was proper, but you know it happened. I honestly doubt an officer would have had any problem getting another officer to sign for him though.

I was a union secretary for a while.
Signed my own card.

Any of you FOG's give any thought to the plethora of bringback papers that magically began appearing a few years ago to the near total absence of them 50-15 years ago?

Some did exist. We had papers for my dad's HSc.

The only one I ever saw til the new wave, though.

I'm inclined to think that the new spate of bringback papers has been appearing, due to the passing of so many of our brave WWII vets.

I see more and more stuff hitting the market, as family members find themselves in the position of "getting rid of all of Grandad's war crap", as one person in my neighborhood put it.....

Bob.

Reason I brought it up was that I started collecting late 50s early 60s.
That was when most stuff was still in the hands of vets.
In my rural area if you ducked WW1 or WW2 you were a bit unusual if of proper age.
My dad and grandfathers were vets. All their friends were vets. Same-same school mates.

Somehow my buddy and I got interested in souveniers and spent most of our time knocking on doors, chasing rumours or just cornering these guys trying to get their stuff.
We got tons of it. Anything you could imagine.
We traded most of it off at gunshows.
I never saw a single bringback authorization other than the one my dad had.
I realize some got lost or separated, and that most stuff was brought home unpapered.

There was a whole lot more stuff coming out of closets then than today by a longshot.
None was very valuable and money was tight. A lot of vets had lost interest in the stuff.
I got a luger for a day's work in a hayfield once.

About 5 years ago I got a drilling and a G33/40 out of an attic and the closest thing was a letter from the guy telling his folks about a shotgun and rifle he was going to send home.

Most of the papers appearing seem to be in the hands of dealers or internet sellers.
For myself I buy a piece for itself and don't care about the story.
That's just me.