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GerColctor · 11-28-2008, 01:42 PM

Mike

These pistols came home after WWII and the M-1 maybe after Korea. Chorm plating was a big deal in those years between 1946 into the early 70s, just look at the bumpers on the cars.

There were many relatively small machine/manufacturing shops that had plating rooms. All as the former GI needed was a "friend" in the plating room. Once plated with chrom or nickle the weapon looked "cool". Never saw one gold plated. Some where also plated in Europe.

If this Luger is actually plated with real gold then the pistol's owner should reverse the process and extract that valuable material to sell, all the price of gold is high. I doubt that it is covered in real gold, as that would have been expensive no matter when it was done.

You see these plated pistols for sale all of the time, usually with the "story" that they were captured from a high ranking SS officer or an Army general. Others are "reported" to have been carried by Captains of a U-Boats. Total "BS". The "stories" are attached to these plated guns in order to try to enhanse their selling price and there is always some fool buyer out there who will "purchase" the "bs story", not look at the item. Then they post on a forum like this and discover how they were taken by seller with the "story".

As Ed mentioned above, the plating cuts the price (value) by about 50%.

As you mentioned above; "Not my gun". At least you didn't get burned.
Joe

11-28-2008, 01:42 PM	#4
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 315 Thanks: 2 Thanked 48 Times in 31 Posts	Mike These pistols came home after WWII and the M-1 maybe after Korea. Chorm plating was a big deal in those years between 1946 into the early 70s, just look at the bumpers on the cars. There were many relatively small machine/manufacturing shops that had plating rooms. All as the former GI needed was a "friend" in the plating room. Once plated with chrom or nickle the weapon looked "cool". Never saw one gold plated. Some where also plated in Europe. If this Luger is actually plated with real gold then the pistol's owner should reverse the process and extract that valuable material to sell, all the price of gold is high. I doubt that it is covered in real gold, as that would have been expensive no matter when it was done. You see these plated pistols for sale all of the time, usually with the "story" that they were captured from a high ranking SS officer or an Army general. Others are "reported" to have been carried by Captains of a U-Boats. Total "BS". The "stories" are attached to these plated guns in order to try to enhanse their selling price and there is always some fool buyer out there who will "purchase" the "bs story", not look at the item. Then they post on a forum like this and discover how they were taken by seller with the "story". As Ed mentioned above, the plating cuts the price (value) by about 50%. As you mentioned above; "Not my gun". At least you didn't get burned. Joe __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.