New collector pitfalls

[Johnny Peppers]

From the tone of this thread, I don't believe that this was started as an educational experience for anyone. I don't believe that there is anyone on this forum that doesn't have their own strong opinions on whether it is right or wrong to replace mismatched parts. When you start a controversial thread you cannot expect everyone to be in 100% agreement, and the posts have a way of getting out of hand when you try to reply to everyone that is not in total agreement with the original post. If a Luger with a replaced part is a fake in your opinion, that was stated that in the original post, and it could have been left at that.