Clint,
If you go to lots of gun shows, you will see the active buying of many 1920 commerical lugers...in any condition...by certain dealers or buyers for these dealers. These are the donor guns because nothing needs to be removed off the chamber and its resultant loss of metal at the top of the chamber. You will see these worn 1920's lugers being bought up for $ 600 or so...
I know of one fellow that buys them only for John Martz (2 at a time...) but they are the donor guns for the wonderful Martz creations...nice as you know they will never go into the bogus M1914 Navy creations.
Other buyers are picking them up for Waffenfabrik-USA...
Add a modern barrel ( which have the wrong rifle twist...), a modern or salvaged original Navy sight, some bogus Navy stamps and numbers, refinish the piece, add wear at the right spots, and you have a $ 3000-$ 4500 M1914 Navy luger. Then add a real Navy stock and holster and they can sell for well over $ 8,000.
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