OK, I read through almost all of this and it's very obvious that Kyrie has strong opinions on the subject. That he looks at it as anything except original manufacture is a fake?? To me that's too extreme. However I was mentored by Bill Munis, who liked originality, and his reasoning was that if you found a piece that was numbered in that time period, that it would be logical to use it, if needed. Armors or depots would take a new part and number it, but an armorer could very well have simply used another part whether correctly numbered or not, the purpose was to get a gun working.
I do not agree with the reasoning that finding a numbered, period part is fakery. In many collecting fields it is acceptable to refinish. Such as, Cars, US military parts if it looks correct will be placed to make a " correct" Garand...
Don't take me wrong, I like originality and strive for complexity original lugers.
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