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I was at a gun show in Dallas about a decade ago and a fellow had not 1, but 4 "SS marked" Lugers on his table ranging in price from $1,000 to $1,500. As I recall, only one was a matching S# gun, a WW1 vintage, all had been reblued and the "SS" rhunes had been carved into each grip with a wood burner (but done pretty well). A couple of months later I saw the guy at another show in San Antonio. Again he had 4 of these guns, but the DWM wasn't one of them. This time I called him on it, and he stated he'd bought about half a dozen from the same vet's son's best friend's uncle's poker buddy's widow (or some such) who liberated them from such and such concentration camp, of course there was no paper trail and he was just trying to get his money back out of them and they "might be real or not".

My sell rule has always been if it looks suspect, disclose it, let other's decide. If you don't know what you have, tell the buyer. And never ever buy anything you aren't 100% certain of, especially when it comes to German Militaria and weapons.