This is an area that has been discussed many times. Personally to me it is a collectible. It looks like an honest 1940 that had a sideplate replaced. I think if we knew the number of truly all matching lugers we would be surprised at the relatively low number. There are certaintly many more perfectly matched lugers now than when I started collecting 50 years ago. Any way nice luger. And yes the sideplate will reduce the value but to me not the collectibility. Also 42 was an official replacement code but seems like smaller numbers ? Bill
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Bill Lyon
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