[bill m]

Hi Ted,

On this issue of a Luger being a fraud, could you please tell me what is an all original matching Luger? What ever your answer is, how can you be sure that is the way it was originally? When you buy a gun from Ralph, or me, and it is all matching, how are you sure that it was always in that condition? Perhaps I changed the firing pin or the holdopen, but you would never know this. Does this make the gun less collectable, if you do not know this? When you re-sell this gun, are you passing on a fraud? I think this is a total mis-use of the fraud concept. If the gun is not matching, someone has replaced a part with a mis-matched part. Why do you want a 99% gun to have a mis-matched holdopen, when you can return it to the proper conditon that it was originally produced? That is not fraud, but correcting someone else's mistake. We all have a lot of Lugers in our collections, and according to how I understand Kyrie's opinion, unless you actually picked it up at the factory, then you shouldn't represent it as all matching or original. Someone has owned all these Lugers, so the history on all of them is in doubt, as all could have been messed with sometime in there life. Sorry guys, but in my opinion there is nothing wrong with correcting someone else's mistake, and you will never know it, and you probably have numerous guns in your collection that have been corrected, but you do not know it and can never tell it.