First Ed Tinker hints that he is money poor. HA! HA! HA!
Then Pippy says I will never part with my Erfurt artilleries. HEE! HEE! He's right. As the stock market advisors on TV would say, "this is just a base forming, buy more".
But as Big Norm would say... this scares me. Newbies and small collectors can't afford to come in. I remember when bowling and racquetball were popular sports. The leagues pushed out the bad and the occasional players. Then these good sports died out. Speculators are now buying Lugers and turning around and selling them for a $1,000+ more in a short period of time. Counterfeiters are now stepping in and reproducing (?) one-of-a-kind, rare and unusual lugers and catching the unsuspecting. They have done this all along of course, but it now seems to be becoming more wide spread and brazen. One highly popular dealer has ruined his previously good name and now he even has accomplices (it is rumored) in different states. I guess it is really popular and profitable to cheat people. How many fake Model-1914 chamber dated 1918 navy Lugers has he put out? I can think of two. Some innocent people now have them and will be trying to sell them some day.
I think that it was Peter Lynch who said, "Watch out when your barber starts telling you what stocks to buy.". Not that barbers are dumb (I might end up bald and my ears cut off after my next haircut). But this was said just to indicate that everyones becoming an over night expert. Go slow people and study what you are buying.
Big Norm
