P.08 price/availibilty where you are ?

I live in southwestern Oklahoma and called EVERY pawnshop/gunshop within an eighty-mile radius and discovered only one shop with any Lugers. A pawnbroker about thirty miles from here had a 1916 Erfurt and a Nazi coded pistol priced at $950 each. Are they this rare all over ?

There are probably a million Lugers in the US. Many in collections and many in bedside stands!


Look at the links on the left and go to them, try Shattuks or Simpsons, and many others.


Go to gun shows, go to gun auctions, put an ad in the paper.


There are tons of them out there, good luck!


Ed

[Dwight Gruber]

Portland, Oregon--


One in a gun shop, one in a pawn shop in the last two months. Low to moderate quality, moderate to higher prices. Found a completely engraved piece, an engraver's sample, just yesterday--too expensive for the gun. One dealer I asked said that they get Lugers in "fairly regularly" (I think they were trying to keep my interest); all the others said they come by very infrequently.


January's gun show, four or five singletons at reasonable collector prices, one guy with five non-collectibles at moderate prices, one dealer with six or eight full-collector Lugers at full collector prices, one John Martz "baby", don't know if it was for sale.


The next gun show here is end of March, I'll report back then.


Seems pretty dry around here...


--Dwight

Don't forget the Tulsa, OK gun show in your neck-of-the-woods on April 6-7, 2002.


Do a "search" on Tulsa on the Message Board threads for more info. from folks here on the Forum that say it's a good show with lots of guns, over 1100 tables, and lugers/vendors...

[Johnny Peppers]

Pete,

There are over 3800 tables in an 11 acre building.

I'll be there with at least 10 lugers in the $400 to $600 range. Also a few more of collector grade at higher prices. See you then. Tom h

Funny how you can make things happen when chasing lugers...


I have a client convinced they need to see me in Amarillo, TX the week of 4-8-02.


Little do they know their airfare will bring me in a few days earlier so I can drive up to the Tulsa show...


My addiction deepens...

[Orv Reichert]

I've got my first P.08 ordered from Mr. Supica (The Armchair Gun Show). I ordered my 1918 Oberndorf Gew.98 from his firm back in June ($105 shipped) and the weapon was better than described. He has several Lugers in stock (a Portuguese, some 1920 commercials, a couple of WW1 dates and one with the 1920 French ordered inventory date as well as the 1916 date). His prices range from $250 for one that used to be a lamp up to $1350 for the Portuguese. He also stocks the Stoegers and Ermas. I mailed the money order and my curio/relic ffl to him last Thursday and he ships handguns next day UPS so I'm hoping it arrives this week ! His website is www.ArmChairGunShow.Com but my P.08 is not on the site.....I ordered it out of his Old Town Dispatch magazine.....the guns are offered in the magazine before they are put on the net.

Need a computer security guy to help out?





Ed

Ed,


I do not think that you would want to go with me to Amarillo.


I go into a new, maximum security prison unit; where these hard-core criminal types are housed, by themselves, in a 9'x11' cell for 23 hours a day.


This is not one of my more pleasant job sites...


Thankfully, this will be my last trip (after a 2-3 year long project).

Well, guys I used to work with got out of the MP's and went into civilian law enforcement and put them there for your work!


Not as much fun as collecting WW2 guns!


But isn't there a steakhouse in Ammarilio where they have a 67 oz steak for free if you can eat it? We drove through there about 12 years ago.


Ed