[Edward Tinker]

Well, that was detailed, pictures are best, but details are good!

First, welcome to our piece of the world and stay around, it is a lot of fun!!

So, I will take a couple of stabs for you.

Matching magazines is a plus and helps bring the price up, but is not a condition to call a gun non-matching, so not having matching mags is acceptable.

I think the price might have been around the right price, a quick look at Simpson's shows two 1937's prices close to what you paid.

2nd variation 1937's were blued and not strawed, and all variations were made in the 4500p and back up through the 400b serial block. That means that 4500p up to 9999p, then 1r then another 9998 and then 1s starting over at the suffix letter A. (There were 126,000 Lugers made that year).

So, yours would have to be an X and not a K, since they did not make K's that year.

300 for your Dads Luger was not a bad buy for someone, I( would have bought it as a shooter.)

If you shoot yours and damage a part that is numbered, you have knocked the value from $1500 to around $500, so...

I'd buy a shooter for around that 2nd price and shoot the heck out of her, but its yours and it is hard not shooting them, but I just keep buying shooter ones to shoot and a few collector ones to go up in value.