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I can't decide if it's worth the extra ten bucks for "excellent condition". (From a June 1951 Rifleman Magazine)
Marc

If I had only been born a few years earlier! How many of you guys kick yourselves when you see something like this?

Left handed Lugers are super rare!!! If only you had known at the time. :D

I compare it today to those Polish Radom P64 pistols that are being sold for around 150-190 bucks.
Actually I just did a search on those and can't find anymore under $200, so I may be to late for those also! :banghead:
Marc

Same goes for the Yugo M57's that were being offered at $149 on GB...They've been going at $179, $188, and $194... :(

I was born "a few years earlier" and I don't kick myself at all. In 1951 I made $.75-$1.00 a week mowing lawns. The price of $39.50 was just as prohibitive as $3950.00 is now (probably more so :)).

WOO HOO I just ordered 10 of them at that price! I went for the excellent condition ones myself.

I hope you guys didn't miss that bargain for the P.38's! They are two dollars cheaper!

I agree with Ron. In 1951 I didn't have two nickels to rub together, and that amount was a fortune to me. You could purchase a lot of things, including old used cars for less money than that.

I too agree with Ron. In 1951 I was 15 years old working in the hayfields for $.50 an hour. It would have taken 80 hours of work to buy one. Bill

Got this information from Hemmings Motor News:

1951 Dollars & Cents



Median cost of a new home

$9,550



Average yearly salary

$3,526



Frigidaire refrigerator/freezer

$199.75



Woman's bone girdle

$6



Man's broadcloth shirt

$1.88



Federal hourly minimum wage

$.75



Eggs

$.74/dozen



Salt pork

$.42/pound



Betty Crocker cake mix

$.35



Tums antacid

$.10



First-class stamp

$.03



Average price residential electricity

$.028/kWh

Mom used to give me 25 cents to go to the corner store to get a loaf of bread and a quart of milk...and I would come home with change.

as the old tune says: "memories are made of this... (sweet sweet)"

I was not born. But gold was $35 per ounce at that time. $39.50 of 1952 is like $1800 today. There are many $1800 Lugers on market now, we are not kick ourselves for not buying every nice piece that we meet. Let alone $49.50, which is today's $2200-$2300, it is supposed to be a nice pistol, no matter it's then or now.

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It's interesting to notice some Lugers are actually "cheaper" than 1952 :)