Hi Don H.,
Well...you forced me to take both of my grips off my '41 BW and run under warm and even hot tap water...no change in their flexibility (or lack thereof) at all...
The outfit behind the sale of these grips on e-Bay have stellar reputations with most folks on this Forum and I think on the Jan Still forum as well.
I do not think these would have "slipped" by FGS' Doug Smith's or Ken Clark's notice...
If might be possible that a younger member of their organization with less experience in eying real from repro may have been the originator of the postings on e-Bay and it is very possible that person just may not have known the difference. I noticed the e-Bay parts on the auction are being sold from S. Kentucky while the guns sold by FGS originate from Portsmouth, Ohio...which reinforces my theory the "big dogs" at the firm may not know some repros were sold as originals...
My advice would be to call the big dogs at FGS in Ohio and request they look into the matter for you.
http://www.fgsinc.8m.com/contact.html
You might also consider "cutting & pasting" (by drag & click to highlight) this entire discussion thread and "pasting" it into a Word document. When yo do this all the special fonts of the Luger Forum's format along with the posted photos will be copied identically. You could then send the Word document to the folks at FGS...if they do not log onto the Forum, themselves...
Regards,
Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />