WTK if this is an okay price tag (Luger S/42)

minigun · 08-17-2006, 11:30 PM

Hello,
Thanks in advance for your thoughts. If one were to run across a really nice S/42 '38 Luger (say 97% or so-presumably all matching), with one mag (non-matching) what is the "market price" for it? The one I like is $2,750. Too much? It seems like it, but these really nice ones are hard to find. So, would that price tag be "the market price"?

Dwight Gruber · 08-18-2006, 03:00 AM

$2,750 is highway robbery.

--Dwight

John Sabato · 08-18-2006, 08:19 AM

I agree with Dwight... that would not be market price... that is the owner's dream... a pipe dream... it is at least $1000 overpriced. ...that gun might be worth that in 10 years but in today's dollars it would be somewhere between $1000 and 1700... I know that is a wide margin, but that is sight unseen.

Get some good clear closeup photos of the gun and the magazines and we can get a little closer to the value.

waltherguy · 08-18-2006, 08:48 AM

To give you an idea. You can see on an earlier thread I posted.. I picked up a matching 1937 S/42 rig, with a great holster & belt, 2 mags (one faked to match the gun unfortunetly, but both correct) and a approx 90%+/- gun for the $1500 range. John & Dwight are exactly right.

minigun · 08-18-2006, 10:32 PM

Hello,
Thought it was a little high, but the pics show everything around the 97% range. Really nice blueing and nice grips (but don't know if grips match, it is a high probability they do). It was just for the gun and one non-matching magazine. Seems this would be a "rig" price tag in all reality.

Kind of curious as a super clean '37 gun (same type condition) sold here on the forums for (I think) around the $2,200 mark or so. Just a slight bit of price difference there.

08-17-2006, 11:30 PM	#1
minigun User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 424 Thanks: 15 Thanked 20 Times in 15 Posts	WTK if this is an okay price tag (Luger S/42) Hello, Thanks in advance for your thoughts. If one were to run across a really nice S/42 '38 Luger (say 97% or so-presumably all matching), with one mag (non-matching) what is the "market price" for it? The one I like is $2,750. Too much? It seems like it, but these really nice ones are hard to find. So, would that price tag be "the market price"?

08-18-2006, 08:19 AM	#3
John Sabato Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,155 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,308 Times in 1,098 Posts	I agree with Dwight... that would not be market price... that is the owner's dream... a pipe dream... it is at least $1000 overpriced. ...that gun might be worth that in 10 years but in today's dollars it would be somewhere between $1000 and 1700... I know that is a wide margin, but that is sight unseen. Get some good clear closeup photos of the gun and the magazines and we can get a little closer to the value. __________________ regards, -John S "...We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL *and are endowed by their Creator* with certain UNALIENABLE* rights, and among these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness..."*

08-18-2006, 08:48 AM	#4
waltherguy User Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: FL Posts: 201 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	To give you an idea. You can see on an earlier thread I posted.. I picked up a matching 1937 S/42 rig, with a great holster & belt, 2 mags (one faked to match the gun unfortunetly, but both correct) and a approx 90%+/- gun for the $1500 range. John & Dwight are exactly right. __________________ "In a man to man fight the winner is the one who puts an extra round in his magazine" -Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

08-18-2006, 03:00 AM	#2
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	$2,750 is highway robbery. --Dwight

08-18-2006, 10:32 PM	#5
minigun User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 424 Thanks: 15 Thanked 20 Times in 15 Posts	Hello, Thought it was a little high, but the pics show everything around the 97% range. Really nice blueing and nice grips (but don't know if grips match, it is a high probability they do). It was just for the gun and one non-matching magazine. Seems this would be a "rig" price tag in all reality. Kind of curious as a super clean '37 gun (same type condition) sold here on the forums for (I think) around the $2,200 mark or so. Just a slight bit of price difference there.