Tom,
Let's not forget that there are all levels of collecting experience and "expertness" participating on the Luger Forum...some of the fundamentals (you may take for granted) may not have been learned by some of our Membership...
Those tables full of refinished lugers being sold as 'original' at the big gun shows demonstrates a market for such "not right" lugers...the guns are there show after show because they do get sold to some folks. Hopefully as the "beginners" (myself included...) learn more on this Forum as well as on Jan's forum amd through AutoMag, a few more folks will just walk by those tables...
Regards,
Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />