I bought my 1st Luger back in 1956. Mail order out of California seen in back of gun magazine.Working on the Great Lakes had it shipped to Erie Pa. It arrived by mail and the postman said that he had not seen one since he had been in the Army. My mother opened it up to show the postman, I did not see it till I got off the boat a couple of months later. I had paid an extra $5.00 (total $30.00) for select pick. I now owned a Luger. Decided to have it reblued so it would look nice. About 20 years ago my nephew asked if I still had it and I ask did he need it, and so gave it to him, had not shot it since the late 60's Fast forward to 10 years ago Decided I needed a Luger and started doing a little research which I had not done the first time. After I bought a few Lugers I ask the Nephew to look at the one I had given him . He had sold it a couple of years ago for $800.00 when he was short of money. I ask a few questions about it: matching numbers, etc . seems he had someone do some research and it indeed did have matching numbers even the magazine and was also amoung only a few made at a place/country that he could not remember. But could only get $800.00 because it had been reblued. Asked him if I could get permission to look at it but he had sold it thru a third party. So I will never know what I had..........
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