Fred, first and foremost, may I speak for the entire Luger Forum
in offering our condolences on the loss of your father. My Dad also owns a couple of Lugers that he brought home from WW2 himself, but I treasure each day that he is still with us. He will be 82 in July, and he is still my hero.
With regard to your inheritance of 6 fine Luger pistols: They were obviously important to your Dad. I would follows Dok's advice and get them appraised by completing the information forms that he mentioned, if only for insurance purposes... I would also recommend that you think long and hard about whether or not you would want to part with them... or treasure them as he did and then pass them on to your children in his memory.
Fred, I would hate for you to regret not keeping them some day when YOUR grandchild asks you what ever happened to the war trophies that great-grandad brought home from the war?
If you do choose to sell them, once they are appraised, you will get fair offers here and I recommend using the classified ads here on the forum. In addition to filling out the information forms, posting photographs here on the forum would improve the accuracy of any appraisals that you get, not to mention make them visible to potential buyers.
Welcome to the Luger Forum and I wish meeting you were under happier circumstances.
-John
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