In regard to #21, a well known Swiss collector reports from the auction: "No questions to authenticity and provenance of that Luger. I handled, checked and inspected it, and also a few others, before the auction. It was owned in the same family from the beginning, the present (resp. former owner) being the grandson of the first owner. He shot it regularly until recently, when he decided to stop shooting due to age and thought he would get about Sfr. 2000.- to 3000.-, as for a nice original Swiss Luger 00 . However, Werner knew at once what it was …."
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