Steve, you're busted! Another member (who shall remain nameless) alerted me to your discussion thread on Parallax Bill's forum--how could you??? After presenting you with my best arguments for restoration (which are bulletproof), you go and change your mind! And I was just starting to like you...I'm crying great big Luger collector tears. OK, let me present my case yet again in another perspective: Consider it from the gun's point of view--it was made in 1920 for the commercial market, and was also probably an export (to where we don't know). If it could talk, what stories would it tell? Did it help put the roar in the "Roaring 20's?". Has it saved lives? Or did it serve the dark side and take them? Who knows, but the odds are that it does have some sort of active history because we do know that it didn't spend it's years in a sheltered, cared for environment. So the poor old thing has a history that it can't tell us about. Now (again from the gun's perspective) if you were in it's place would you want to stay in a downgraded, dilapidated fade-away condition or would you welcome the chance to be restored to your former glory and appreciated for what you once were? Think about it Steve, would you want to fade away to obscurity or be returned to your rightful place in history? Have you no heart, no compassion? Shame on you. Bring the gun back--you'll love it!!!
DougT
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