1917 Marked Artillery

[cquist]

Hi,

I just joined the group and am more familiar with Winchesters then I am with Lugers. I went over to this gentleman's home who is liquidating many of his fathers guns (mostly mauser and other european based types), cameras (leica), watches (Rolex), and reloading equipment. The one that caught my eye was a DWM marked 1917 on the bridge (hopefully I am using the terms properly). It had an eight inch barrel along with a holster which had a shoulder stock and strap connected to it. It looked better then 95% with matching serial numbers (in fact I didn't see any wear on it at all). The only serial number which was not there was the clip, which had a wooden grip on the bottom of it, but initially I did not see a number on it. He claimed that he was the only one to ever fire it, but considering his age (probably around 65), I am not sure he would know, since he did not have it from the beginning. I went there looking at other items, but I saw this. He said he was going to take it to a gunshow this weekend and see if he could get $3K for it. Is it worth more then this? Any thoughts? I really don't have $3K laying around right now, and do not want to pay the divorse costs, but it was still very tempting.

Curtis