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Unread 07-03-2013, 08:11 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by alvin View Post
Not Postie, right? He does not care marking, but he has claimed that he's not a collector, let alone a real one
I like German unit marked pistols; I think it adds character, and mystique. But if it has name & unit of GI who brought it back, scratched in metal or carved in grips, that is, IMHO, a detraction from appeal.

I even think modifications done by German armorers are appealing; sear safeties, magazine safeties, cut down barrels [arty cut down and reissued as 4"], even Russian capture/VoPo rebuilds are interesting & appeal to me...

...But I am not a collector. My accumulation has no theme. It is just a hodgepodge of various items with no relation to each other.
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