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Unread 08-18-2017, 10:55 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by DonVoigt View Post
If I say any number, someone will find fault with it...So this answer is "maybe"...
OK, I'm not a collector, but I'll take a stab at setting a baseline price for bringback papers...

Say a seller has two double-date Erfurt artilleries, exact same condition, asking $2,500 for one, gun only w/mag...The other is gun w/mag and matching bringback papers, for $2,600...

I would say no deal on the one with the $100 paperwork...Not even for $50...But for $20, I would choose that one over its twin without papers...

But that's what to me is a 'high-end' Luger. Anything under say $1,500, I would not go $20. maybe $10, more likely $5.

But that's just me, a backwoods hick who doesn't know his buttcrack from a hole in the ground...
(If the seller had a really good story to go with the paperwork and the Luger, I'd buy him an egg salad sandwich too...)
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