Old Luger add.
 

Found this add in the Sept 1965 American Rifleman mag. Wish I was a little older now! <img border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" title="" src="graemlins/cussing.gif" /> In case you can't make it out, it says to add $10 for a matching numbered mag!

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P.08,
It is all relative. In 1965 I was making $222.50 a month with a wife and new daughter. So $60 for an all matching Luger seemed like a lot.

Ron and P-08,
If Matching Numbered Magazines were available for any Luger Advertised in this add, Then what happened to all of the unordered magazines? :confused:
Or could it be? That if any order were for a Luger and Matching Magazine included a magazine that was stamped as a function of filling the order. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />
In other words Forced Matched on demand, much the same as some still practice today ! :rolleyes:
Gives one something to think about, Does it not ?
Questions, Questions, Questions ??? :confused:
ViggoG <img border="0" alt="[bigbye]" title="" src="graemlins/xyxwave.gif" />

Ron's comment reminds me that the rent my parents paid back then was $60 a month for a 2 bed/1 bath apartment in Chicago.

Ron, only being 1yr old at the time. Are you saying that $50 back then is equivalent to $400-500?

Ron, I thought $222.50 per month sounded familiar. Could it be that we were both O-1s with zero longevitiy in the military in 1965? A couple of my roomies had done 4 years in the reserve before coming on active duty and were marking almost twice as much as you and I. Live and learn. TH

P.08,
I would say that is a close approximation. $50 was real close to a week's pay.

Tom,
Your memory serves you correctly...O-1 or "butterbars" as we were sometimes referred to, not necessarily affectionately.

Back about then I bought a GI 1911 .45 through the DCM for $12.50 and a .30 Carbine for $20. $50 was a lot of money.