Need help big time!

Walt · 01-24-2002, 09:46 PM

Hi folks,

ReadÃ?Â*a lot andÃ?Â*write a little having only one Luger in my collection, but need help trying to get a valuation on the rascal. Getting up in years, decided it was time to inventory and appraise my weapons collection and all went fine until I ran into a dead end with the Luger. You older forum contributors will remember it as the piece you helped me identify last year as an early Krieghoff double date beginning life as a 1917 DWM artillary and ending up with the Dresden police after going through a Krieghoff rework.Unfortunately, after dozens of E-mails to dealers and appraisers around the country, no one has been able to verify the existence of any early Krieghoff reworks ever receiving the Weimar acceptance date and going over to the military or police. John Allen from Blue Book wasÃ?Â*one individual who tried to help me with this, but evenÃ?Â*their extensive reference library turned up nothing, and in his words, his personal contacts were 'skeptical'of the weapons existence. Most of my queries to prime dealers such as Simpson, were simply ignored.

Fortunately, Rick K. of the forum has a virtually identical piece other than the police grip I.D., but his has been the only other Luger I've found in some two years of searching with the horizonal crown N's on the right side of the frame and receiver as well as the double date. Info from several sources good enough to respond stated unequivicably that records indicate all early Krieghoffs wereÃ?Â*reworked for commercial use only with noneÃ?Â*going to the military or police. By the way, after the conclusion was reached that these markings wereÃ?Â*indeed early Krieghoff, they were verified as such by a photo to Ralph Shattuck. Soooo, although with the assistance of Bill M., Thor and others, I'm reasonably certain of my Lugers lineage and history, it has proven impossible to get a valuation as the thing is not suppossed to exist. Any help in putting this thing to bed would be greatly appreciated.

01-24-2002, 09:46 PM	#1
Walt User Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 21 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Need help big time! Hi folks, ReadÃ?Âa lot andÃ?Âwrite a little having only one Luger in my collection, but need help trying to get a valuation on the rascal. Getting up in years, decided it was time to inventory and appraise my weapons collection and all went fine until I ran into a dead end with the Luger. You older forum contributors will remember it as the piece you helped me identify last year as an early Krieghoff double date beginning life as a 1917 DWM artillary and ending up with the Dresden police after going through a Krieghoff rework.Unfortunately, after dozens of E-mails to dealers and appraisers around the country, no one has been able to verify the existence of any early Krieghoff reworks ever receiving the Weimar acceptance date and going over to the military or police. John Allen from Blue Book wasÃ?Âone individual who tried to help me with this, but evenÃ?Âtheir extensive reference library turned up nothing, and in his words, his personal contacts were 'skeptical'of the weapons existence. Most of my queries to prime dealers such as Simpson, were simply ignored. Fortunately, Rick K. of the forum has a virtually identical piece other than the police grip I.D., but his has been the only other Luger I've found in some two years of searching with the horizonal crown N's on the right side of the frame and receiver as well as the double date. Info from several sources good enough to respond stated unequivicably that records indicate all early Krieghoffs wereÃ?Âreworked for commercial use only with noneÃ?Âgoing to the military or police. By the way, after the conclusion was reached that these markings wereÃ?Â*indeed early Krieghoff, they were verified as such by a photo to Ralph Shattuck. Soooo, although with the assistance of Bill M., Thor and others, I'm reasonably certain of my Lugers lineage and history, it has proven impossible to get a valuation as the thing is not suppossed to exist. Any help in putting this thing to bed would be greatly appreciated.