41 (I think) Luger

[Lopezlandauro]

Thank you very much for the information guys.
I was born, raised and live in the beautiful Peru, although I lived a couple years in Indianapolis, down here is Peru, home.
I wasn't looking to discover a million dollar collectible, I just wanted to know more about my Luger.

Actually, the guy who sold me the gun is a friend, I didn't know "la nonna", but I did knew her son (my friend's father), and I heard that story for years, she did come from Italy in the 50s with the gun. When the father passed away over a year ago, my friend didn't want the gun, but he neither wanted to sell it to anybody (after all, it's dad's and nonna's gun), so knowing how much I like guns, he called me and asked for some $300 that I immediately tossed out of my wallet. The Luger has been stored for over 50 years, wrapped with a cloth in a closet. Now it's in my private collection, and I'm glad to read that it's not a precious piece that belong to a museum, but a nice shooter!!

So it's very strange that it's a Russian capture, because the story is partially true, they are Italians and have been living in Peru for so long, but who knows, maybe nonna traded it in a border or swapped by food or anything before she jumped on a boat for America. We'll never know the real story, but the fact is that is was a Nazi handgun, and who knows what kind of action it has seen.

Thanks again.

Rod