Site Poll - How Long have you Owned/Collected

markm3 · 11-13-2002, 11:57 PM

I've been interested in them for more than 35 years (huge history buff, especially World War One), and finally bought my first one nearly six years ago. I now have four 4"--a matched 1908 Prussian infantry unit marked first issue; a matched 1917 DWM, a matched 1937 Mauser and a 1941/42 shooter. I also have two artilleries--a matched 1915 DWM and mismatched 1914 Erfurt that Ted Green just beautifully reblued and restrawed (photo under Mark Mansour's Erfurt string in Artillery Lugers). Everyone who visits my home becomes a Luger afficionado. It's just a thing with them, a mystique that is very difficult to quantify, but those of us who have held, cleaned, shot and examined one, and pondered where it has been, know it when we see and feel it.

Mark

11-13-2002, 11:57 PM	#16
markm3 User Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 59 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I've been interested in them for more than 35 years (huge history buff, especially World War One), and finally bought my first one nearly six years ago. I now have four 4"--a matched 1908 Prussian infantry unit marked first issue; a matched 1917 DWM, a matched 1937 Mauser and a 1941/42 shooter. I also have two artilleries--a matched 1915 DWM and mismatched 1914 Erfurt that Ted Green just beautifully reblued and restrawed (photo under Mark Mansour's Erfurt string in Artillery Lugers). Everyone who visits my home becomes a Luger afficionado. It's just a thing with them, a mystique that is very difficult to quantify, but those of us who have held, cleaned, shot and examined one, and pondered where it has been, know it when we see and feel it. Mark __________________ markm3

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