Not garbage to me.

[pajh]

Having recently come into the procession of a Luger type pistol, I found your site and am impressed. The discussions seem forthright and informative.
I would like to impose upon your wisdom. I don't even know the correct caliber of my pistol.

It came to me from the small gun collection of my father-in-law who died in 1995. I do not know how long he had the Luger. His collection was not sophisticated and I suspect that the value of this pistol to him was the unique form and action. Based on my reading of past messages on your site, I believe this pistol is a replica model rather than an original Luger. Description is as follows:

Housed in wooden box with extra mag., cleaning rod and mag. loading slide tool.
Label in box lid reads: American Eagle, LUGER, A.F.Stoager, Inc., New York

The pistol color is all black, with barrel length just over 3 1/8th ins.
Regular Luger silhouette except that the toggle knob is more forward than in pictured models that I have seen on lugerforum.
Markings:
Top: crest of Am. Eagle
Right: A.F.Stoeger, Inc., New York (2 lines)

Left: LUGER, and SAFE under thumb safety.
Underside of barrel: STOEGER IND, S, HACKENSACK, NJ, U.S.A.
Front of chamber: C0545

The magazine has a white plastic slide, bottom plug is black matte plastic.
The magazines are exactly as pictured at ammoclip.com under Stoeger Luger .22LR, 10 round.

Thanks for considering my curiosity. I am intrigued by this pistol, want to fire it a few times, but mostly am enjoying the seeking of the story.