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Originally Posted by sheepherder
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...)  |
$100 is 4% of $2500. Should go that one with paper, even if you have no interest in it. You can get more from it. Maybe $200 or even $300. For total $2600 input, generating $2900 output with effort does not sound attractive at all, but that's due to the $2500 base gun, not due to the paper. The paper is still a small percentage of the whole value. If the base gun can also help generating $300, output total $3200, that will be good.