Reworks, and the changes in how they are regarded

[Dok]

speaking for the shooter community... I do not have the funds (or maybe even the tenacity) to be a serious collector, but I appreciate the fine collectible, but at the same time, my Luger is still a Luger, and every bit as much a Luger as any Luger owned by Bill.


OK, so it doesn't have certain stamps, and it has other other stamps... IT'S STILL A LUGER. And I think it's great, and I love it every bit as much as if it had some "collector dreamt-up" pedigree. I think one of the things all collectors should be careful of is the "snobbery of the elite". Because your collectible is worth more than mine, somehow that makes mine "trash". I don't hold with that, I not only get to look at mine and hold it lovingly as do you, but I get to shoot mine, so in my books, I actually get more pleasure, because a Luger wasn't made to just be admired as a work of art (although it certainly is) it was made to shoot... something it does VERY well.