Good point bill. As a relative newbie to Lugers I come at it from a different perspective but I think reach the same point. I have handled several dozen Luger magazines claimed as original, and looked at many more pictures. I have handled less than a dozen Lugers with claimed matching magazines. Of these alleged matching magazines, all but one struck me as fake (numbers too deep, fonts not correct, numbers too perfect, mag bottom shows evidence of polish, etc. etc.). My conclusion: most Luger magazines claimed as matches are fake. Personally I would never pay a premium for a Luger with a matching magazine unless an independent expert collector had first declared the match genuine.
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