Many thanks again for the kind welcome.
My last family member to own them was very elderly and in poor health, so it has been a while since some have been maintained.
I used to do them regularly when I still lived in the same city, but it has been quite some time since I moved to another state.
Luckily, it was a dry state that they came from.
I actually grew up hunting these guns at the shows with my folks, back in the 60s.
I started my own small collection of Lugers about 20 years ago, more or less to gain the expertise to handle this lot when it would become mine.
My business is in our high season right now for Christmas, so it might be a few weeks before I can start getting some detailed pics up.
I am just oiling, cleaning and trying to stabilize the collection right now.
Ackkk, some were even stored in holsters.
That has been corrected.
Not much damage though, as far as I can see.
A couple of tiny spots of rust under the grips on a couple, and one, (a re-blued lesser one, thank Dog!), that sat on a holster rivet and got a bit of finish eaten away.
Overall, they are in great shape, considering it might have been 10 years since they were last checked on.
Giving them a nice drink of Hoppe's Gun Oil, (keeping it off the grips of course), doing a field strip, pulling grips and firing pins to clean and look, and promising to get back to them in the New Year.
So if it takes a bit to get back to you all, please understand.
Thanks.
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