Considering the high prices attached to all original (slang term "matching") lugers, you need to have original grip panels, also. If someone offers me a luger all matching but repro grips at a $1100 price, I have to laugh. Repro grips means missing two of the most fragile of the original parts. Therefore, if it is all matching except grips, it is low value for the type (currently $350-500).
To estimate the value of ANY mismatched part, take the collector value for the piece and subtract the shooter value. If the gun is worth $800 if all-original, then mismatched grips or a missing firing pin or a replaced takedown lever are worth $400 in value loss. If a part is completely missing, also deduct the cost of buying a replacement part. Therefore, if a luger is all matched, 95%, with Franzite grips--the value is $450 minus $40-80 that it costs to get replacement grips fitted.
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