Luger disaster

[Herb]

Heydrich, I completley agree with you. While at the Reno gun show I had the opportunity to visit the table of a Luger dealer, at least I assumed he was a dealer in Lugers as that is all that he had on his table. He had a double dated Luger there and I asked him if it was ok to look at it. I then brought it into bifocal inspection length and saw that it was a 1918/1938 double date. I said to him, what is this 38 date thing? He replied, in essence, 'I really don't know, I just got that one a few days ago and haven't had time to really look it over'. Well, he is either a liar or a theif, or both and unfortunately I did not get his name in my haste to get away from his table. I sincerely hope that a newby to the collecting fraternity didn't buy that thing because he had heard of the 'double dated Lugers' being collectable, but there it was, ready for a high dollar sale based on the faked dates. Sad.