Buy the gun, not the story.
How many times does that have to be said. Everybody seems to be looking for that special gun owned by someone "important" in history. If you cannot document the weapon to the "important" person, then it is just someone's opinion.
As mentioned above, even if these Lugers came from the Major, when and where did he get them? Did he pick them up on the battlefield, find them in a pile of captured or turned in weapons, win them in a card game or aquire them sometime after he returned home.
In the "Band of Brothers" series there was a paratrooper who was somewhat obsessed in picking up a Luger and eventually got one, but it soon accidently discharged and killed him. Winters was shown in later scenes carrying this Luger. Is that gun one of these two? Can that be verified?
My father-in-law served in the Army in the Pacific Theater as a sergeant and came home with an officer's sword and a few other small trophies, but no guns. If I now went out and purchased a Japanese rifle [with Mum intact] and a pistol, we could claim he brought these home as battlefield pickups and everyone would pay a higher price, because these guns came directly from the vet and he told them a great "story" of how he killed their former owners in a hard fought battle.
Joe
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