[mrerick]

So, to be specific:

- I know someone who is selling a Simson & Suhl Luger dated 1914 with Nazi proofs.

As mentioned above, Simson reworked WW-I era Lugers and made about 12,000 new ones starting in the 1920s. The Nazi government came into existence in 1933, and started using their markings in the late 1930s. As with many Jewish owned firms, Simson was "taken over" by them in 1933. This combination never came out of a German factory that way either new or reworked.

- It is immaculate. 99% condition.

It would be if it was recently refinished, especially after all the post war embellishment. What you describe should have gone through two wars, and show it.

- It has matching magazine and all matching parts.

But it didn't get that way at the factory since no single factory could have created it across the Imperial, Weimar and Nazi eras.

- It has the brown leather soft shell holster

Original German Luger holsters are hard shell

- and capture papers from an airborne vet.

With a time machine?

- What do you guys think the value is of one of these?

Before the parts were re-marked and refinished, maybe $600. Now under $450.

- The guy offered it for $2,700 but I thought that it was a little pricey for a WWI made Luger.

You thought right, even though it was from three German eras and one post-war allied era.

- Sorry no pics.