[Aaron]

I agree emphatically with Kyrie. Capture papers are worthless with a mismatched Luger. I do not understand who such papers can be important to aside from the vet who brought it back and his descendents. Otherwise, a military issued Luger was definitely used to some extent during wartime, and the papers prove nothing we did not already know. Certainly, they do not mention the circumstances surrounding the capture of the pistol, only that the GI has official permission to keep it. In most instances, vet bringbacks were not taken from live enemy soldiers, anyway. The majority were picked up off piles of surrendered weapons, or found in unoccupied quarters, or won in crap games, or traded for chocolate bars. Whether or not they were brought back with official permission should be of little interest, and such papers should not have a significant bearing on the value. And now to address another point: I have noticed a disturbing tendency to refer to Lugers as "almost matching," or "practically matching," and in the above case, "four out of seven parts matching." This is a trend which must be discouraged, as the next thing we know values will become proportional to the percentage of matching parts. Non-matching is non-matching, and the value plummets the moment one part is not correct. That's why we coined the term "shooter."