Whats it worth? My 1st Luger (rig) purchase

[LugerVern]

This is the " New Collectors Forum" It's meant to be a learning experience for everyone, I thought I was doing that. If I offended you it was not meant that way.

I talked a lot about the need for quality pictures and we very very often tell members to insist on 3 day at home inspections.
There is a very real reason behind this.

Attached is a picture of a gun I recently bought, the top left picture is the one posted for purchase ( enlarged slightly), that is a very good picture, even when compared to another gun only a few serial numbers apart ( upper right) it still looks pretty darn good.

True the fonts are off ever so slightly but that is common to this model, so not a major issue. Look at the different shades and hue between the three different cameras, this is a factor of the camera and has nothing to do with the user, but it makes analyzing a gun using pictures much more difficult that you may realize.

Bottom left is a very high resolution picture, here you start to see an issue, obvious sanding marks and the picture bottom right you can see an over stamp of the 9.

What I can not show you is that with a hand held loop, I can actually see a "6" under the "9"

It doesn't matter if it was done a year ago or 65 years ago, that side plate is not original to the gun.

I still bought the gun because it is near perfect in every other way and was fairly priced. I am always looking for a good deal.

Anyway, no offense intended.

Everyone has an opinion, I am not always right.

Good luck in your future collecting

Vern