Tony:
I think they are yanking your chain with the $400 deal. Don’t believe that for a second. I see import marked, mismatched, mucked with, Russian reworked byf models that go for $450 (or more!) on the Internet. My uneducated guess (I own no Luger books, and just read the posts here) is that if you put that Simson up for sale, here, or on a auction site, collectors would start to chortle insanely and the value would magically triple in value immediately. Nice restoration job by the way. You showed balls to go through with that risky project, especially with such a rare bird to work with, and with all the doubters that you mention. I say this because in the many years I’ve collected, I’ve seen and heard of so many restoration jobs and “projects” that have ended up in complete catastrophe. Just go to any gun show, or peruse a gun-related auction site, and you will see a plethora of firearms that have been screwed over by Bubba. I’ve noticed that experienced collectors and dealers (like some of the wise Luger aficionados on this site) seem to be able to just glance at a piece to tell how much it’s been Bubbafied. So, restoration, or reworking of German collectables, is best left to the professionals like Thor, in my opinion. An added bonus is that Thor is one of the nicest persons I’ve ever met over the Web. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
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