Need help identifying this luger

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by calvarius

Thanks to everybody you've just saved me a ton of money. Can somebody explain what we're looking at?

I can see only one picture; you are looking at a luger that was nickled or chromed post war (NONE were ever done this way for a military piece); with post market grips with a swastika stuck onto it.


If you want to spend $4500 (a hell of a lot of money), research it first, find out why its valuable and find out if it will be valuable in five years.

I have gone to several auctions and there will be a couple of lugers, one buffed bad and reblued, but pretty and a war horse, one that has seen action, but is in reasonable shape.

Value of each

buffed maybe $600
war horse $1000-$1200

What they went for

buffed $1700
war horse $900

The buffed one won't go up in value except as a shooter so maybe a couple of percent a year; the war horse will go up 5-1-% a year in my humble opinion.... Folks like pretty guns and I have seen some fairly knowledge collectors buy something because it was "so" nice, and I am leery of any really nice luger that is over 65 years old....


In short; if you have $4500 to spend, buy some books, read up on it, read here, ask some questions and buy either a documented (i.e. real) piece of history) and still have money to buy several nice lugers for $4500....
Ed