When I joined this forum a while back I had a 'volume' outlook on collecting Lugers. My thoughts were, based on limited funds
, (still are)with $5,000, I shoud buy 5- $1,000 Lugers and not one very nice collector Luger at $5,000. Thoughts were, 5 Lugers would make a 'collection' and not one nice one. My time on this, and Jan Still's forum, is swaying my thinking. I now have two Lugers, one will only ever be a 'shooter', and the other, my 1900 AE Test now being restored by THOR, will never be considered a true collector Luger, by most, because of it's restoration, no matter how correctly it was done. I am now leaning toward a nice collector quaility Luger, many varing opinions out there on what collect quaility means. I was looking to get maybe three WW1 dated Lugers in the 80% range, at about $1,500 each, but now maybe one 'very' nice 1900 or Navy for about the same combined $$. At least I would have one collector quaility Luger. MMM?? Still having say a 1914,1915,1916 DWM (matching) in avg condition would be best, then I would have a era to build on looking for more dates to add. Still, that one 'gem' would be nice!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
Bill