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bill m · 06-15-2001, 09:51 AM

Hi Kyrie,

Appearance is very important in all collecting grade items. You would not put a 75 Corvette hood on a 67 model, if you wanted the correct appearance. I think you've gone way overboard on this "fraudulent" stuff. Fraud is when you purposely try to decieve someone. You are correct when you say that when you put the correct matching part on a Luger, you have not made it all original again, as technically that is impossible, but when this is done, you have restored it to a condition as it was originally produced. There is nothing wrong with this in my opinion, to replace the part that someone else has already replaced at some time. When you get a gun with a mismatched part, that gun is not as originally produced, so why do you want to keep it as such, when you have no idea when, where, or by whom messed with it? There is no way that you or I or anyone else can tell which parts have been replaced if they are fitted properly. The gun you buy that is suppose to be all original may have been messed with 25 years ago, but you would never know that. Most parts that have been replaced were done so because they either broke or did not work properly when parts and numbers did not mean anything, but proper working order did. To replace a part to make the gun all proper, and matching does not seem "fraudulent" to me, but more like an act of kindness! I can not stand fraud or counterfiets, and think the people that do this are the lowest SOB's around, but changing a wrong part is not the same, in my opinion. You take care, as it is good to have different opinions. That's what makes the world go round.

06-15-2001, 09:51 AM	#7
bill m User Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 385 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	What makes the world go round! Hi Kyrie, Appearance is very important in all collecting grade items. You would not put a 75 Corvette hood on a 67 model, if you wanted the correct appearance. I think you've gone way overboard on this "fraudulent" stuff. Fraud is when you purposely try to decieve someone. You are correct when you say that when you put the correct matching part on a Luger, you have not made it all original again, as technically that is impossible, but when this is done, you have restored it to a condition as it was originally produced. There is nothing wrong with this in my opinion, to replace the part that someone else has already replaced at some time. When you get a gun with a mismatched part, that gun is not as originally produced, so why do you want to keep it as such, when you have no idea when, where, or by whom messed with it? There is no way that you or I or anyone else can tell which parts have been replaced if they are fitted properly. The gun you buy that is suppose to be all original may have been messed with 25 years ago, but you would never know that. Most parts that have been replaced were done so because they either broke or did not work properly when parts and numbers did not mean anything, but proper working order did. To replace a part to make the gun all proper, and matching does not seem "fraudulent" to me, but more like an act of kindness! I can not stand fraud or counterfiets, and think the people that do this are the lowest SOB's around, but changing a wrong part is not the same, in my opinion. You take care, as it is good to have different opinions. That's what makes the world go round.