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policeluger · 10-14-2002, 07:44 PM

I still think some are missing the point, and to say that "what was true 40 years ago still is true today"??? I will tell a friemd of mine who has a Banner E/F with matched number mag, but in a bit rough condition, say 60%, to toss the mag as the collecting field will not credit it, and get a new production mag off Ebay. This gun was taken off the landing docks in New York by his MP father. I guess Vets at that time, post 45' could not just walk into NY with a pistol. Well as the story goes his father sliped the Banner in his back waist band and went about his duties. Took the gun home and for 50 years thay have shot in on a regular basis, explaines 60% condition. When he get ready and needs the funds to travel, as Egypt of all places is where he wants to go, the Banner is mine for a song....to bad the mag matches. And as I collect only Weimar police, I can't add it to my collection. I will accept Weimar police may in some minds be a sub-species, but where does having a matched/rework period gun become guns of a lesser god. A matching HS mag with *K, is not meeting whos "criteria", it meets mine and I collect for only me.

10-14-2002, 07:44 PM	#15
policeluger RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ca. Posts: 2,141 Thanks: 8 Thanked 89 Times in 54 Posts	I still think some are missing the point, and to say that "what was true 40 years ago still is true today"??? I will tell a friemd of mine who has a Banner E/F with matched number mag, but in a bit rough condition, say 60%, to toss the mag as the collecting field will not credit it, and get a new production mag off Ebay. This gun was taken off the landing docks in New York by his MP father. I guess Vets at that time, post 45' could not just walk into NY with a pistol. Well as the story goes his father sliped the Banner in his back waist band and went about his duties. Took the gun home and for 50 years thay have shot in on a regular basis, explaines 60% condition. When he get ready and needs the funds to travel, as Egypt of all places is where he wants to go, the Banner is mine for a song....to bad the mag matches. And as I collect only Weimar police, I can't add it to my collection. I will accept Weimar police may in some minds be a sub-species, but where does having a matched/rework period gun become guns of a lesser god. A matching HS mag with *K, is not meeting whos "criteria", it meets mine and I collect for only me.