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'Come on and cheer up, they said, things could be worse,eh? So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse.'
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I don't know who said it first but my late brother said it occasionally. He would not shy away from the word 'FAKE' either. Nevertheless it would be utterly presumptuous of me, with my limited knowledge, to use such blunt language. Garfield used the word 'CRAP'.
As for Mr. Krause: he did not balk at letting me photograph this piece, knowing it would be posted here the next day. He had told me what he believed to have been replaced on it. All I had asked him for was a good 6" shooter with Navy-style sight because I could not see spending $4K on a single gun that I wanted to shoot. I never expected this to fly as a collector's piece. No one who knows anything is likely to try to fool anyone else who know anything with this bipolar Luger. I my know nothing but he knows you all know and that I depend largely on your input. If some Lugers originally stamped for Army use were then re-barreled and redirected for Navy use I would not know. If someone in Florida is able to recreate Crown/M dies to boost old guns I would not know either.
It is overpriced. So is housing here in Kalifornia. So is French cuisine. So, perhaps, are collectable firearms. I do want the best bang for my buck and I can wait.
I still depend on the expertise abundant in this Forum, how ever blunt it gets.
Russell