66mustang

Yes Bill, I think you are right (as are others), although an excellcent idea, the cost would be expensive just in shipping the Luger to others (one alternative), or be biased by only "certain" people able to judge an item (i.e. there are four dealers and three collectors in California willing to get together) and even charging a fee for the services.


This could inflate some values of those guns that were judged and someone might not be able to pay for the judging or refuse and feel that this was unfair.


I like the idea, but imagine that it would be virtually impossible to set up. Plus, I believe there are some valuable Lugers sitting in desk drawers (not me tho!) that feel they have worthless or shooter items and in reality are rare variations. My point is, that even from experts, they sometimes screw up or don't believe that a weapon is valuable, when it very well could be.


ED