SS Officer Nickle Plated Luger

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There is a big difference between genuine Nickle plate and chrome as in bumper chrome. I revived a 1908 luger from this horrible fate by reversing the chroming process and it came off beautifully. This pistol however was chromed, not nickled. The Germans did indeed nickle plate many presentation pistols but they did not have nor use chroming. When you see two of these metal processes side by side you will see a great difference. Nickle plate is quite pleasing and a process used by all major gun manufacturers. Chroming came into vogue early 1950's or late 1940's here in the U.S. Jerry