Dave my first was the result of living with a Basque family in southern France as a student exchange family in 1972!. Their grandfather showed me my first sight of a luger that was hidden among empty vine bottles under the house with a clay floor. He had been with the Basque resistance during the war. He inherited it from his grandfather who used it in the Great War as they refer! Yes all this history and an honor to hold. I held it for the first time and never let go!! It had a correct French markings on top of the barrel, "Manufacture d'Armes & Cycles de Saint-Etienne" Made for the French Commercial market~Years later while still in my first year of law school at Villanova, one came up for sale and I lost my Luger Virginity. Tres Tres Bien! The French started my luger addition, 21 lugers later~-- Eric
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