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Bill M, I was just remarking that I see nothing wrong with replacing a post-war replacement mag with a correct TYPE period mag. I personally never would re-number a part or try to other decieve on originality. I believe that many of us own pieces that we do know the history of, however I would agree that this integrity of pedigree becomes harder to maintain as items change hands. You bring up a good point on holsters and my response would be too long to fully post here. I will say in short that I would not change out a holster that came back with a Luger (agree with you, I think)but that also one should realize that with the ISSUE Lugers that were assigned enlisted men (as opposed to officers priviatly owned Lugers), the holsters could be many years off from the Luger date. This is due to the fact that often (usually) these pistols were issued many to many different soldiers and I see no evidence that holsters and pistols were kept/accounted for as a set. The old accepted theory that holsters should be the same year, or perhaps one year off to the pistol, would only hold true for officers lugers in most cases. Of course there is no positive way to distinguish officers pistols.