What Ever Happened To FGS

cirelaw · 04-28-2015, 08:48 PM

I bought my first swiss and P38 from him and his son!!!

cirelaw · 04-30-2015, 09:45 PM

No one seems to know??

Norme · 04-30-2015, 10:16 PM

Hi Eric,, Legendary Luger dealer Doug Smith passed away last year after a long illness,
Regards, Norm
http://luger.gunboards.com/showthrea...ing-Doug-Smith

cirelaw · 04-30-2015, 10:33 PM

Thanks all for your posts and PM's before my addiction for lugers I bought at least 5 beauties with 2 consequatives. Wish I still had them! Eric

alvin · 04-30-2015, 11:35 PM

C&R is very personalized. Looks like common situation being C&R dealership owner also being a collector, so when the owner passes away, either the business closes the door or changes direction to something else. As a business, seldom heard of C&R dealership could pass more than two generations.... sometimes heard "I ran here and there into shows with my father when I was a kid,,,," (such as handgunsoftheworld, if I remembered correctly), but that's very rare case. It's also rare to hear a collector saying "I had this collection coming from family" -- it's common to see people selling family C&R from time to time, but most of them are not collectors, two or three pieces from previous generations, obviously not systemically collected.

Ben M. · 05-02-2015, 04:04 PM

too bad partner or son-s did not want the business to go on

always better when more are in business so prices stay good

04-28-2015, 08:48 PM	#1
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04-30-2015, 09:45 PM	#2
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,176 Posts	No one seems to know??

04-30-2015, 10:16 PM	#3
Norme Always A Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Colorado Posts: 2,417 Thanks: 226 Thanked 2,607 Times in 933 Posts	Hi Eric,, Legendary Luger dealer Doug Smith passed away last year after a long illness, Regards, Norm http://luger.gunboards.com/showthrea...ing-Doug-Smith

04-30-2015, 10:33 PM	#4
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,138 Times in 2,176 Posts	Thanks all for your posts and PM's before my addiction for lugers I bought at least 5 beauties with 2 consequatives. Wish I still had them! Eric

04-30-2015, 11:35 PM	#5
alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	C&R is very personalized. Looks like common situation being C&R dealership owner also being a collector, so when the owner passes away, either the business closes the door or changes direction to something else. As a business, seldom heard of C&R dealership could pass more than two generations.... sometimes heard "I ran here and there into shows with my father when I was a kid,,,," (such as handgunsoftheworld, if I remembered correctly), but that's very rare case. It's also rare to hear a collector saying "I had this collection coming from family" -- it's common to see people selling family C&R from time to time, but most of them are not collectors, two or three pieces from previous generations, obviously not systemically collected.

05-02-2015, 04:04 PM	#6
Ben M. User Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Retired to Naples, FL. Posts: 498 Thanks: 112 Thanked 156 Times in 98 Posts	too bad partner or son-s did not want the business to go on always better when more are in business so prices stay good