Matching Luger question - Don't Shoot!

[Kyrie]

Hi Denny,


Welcome aboard


Regarding your extractor question, alas, it would not.


â??Matchingâ?� is collector shorthand for â??all original.â?� There is one and only one original extractor for each Luger. Once itâ??s gone itâ??s gone forever and the Luger is forevermore mismatched.


This is something folks who are new to collecting donâ??t understand, and sooner or later they all come up with the idea of making up â??matchingâ?� Lugers. It doesnâ??t work that way :-(


Taking an extractor from another Luger that happens to have the same last two serial number digits as your Lugerâ??s frame and putting that extractor on your Luger will not make it a matching Luger. It will just make it look like it is matching - in short, a fake. If you were then to offer the Luger for sale as matching the offer would be fraudulent. You could be criminally prosecuted and be subject to civil suit for fraud.


Since you will be having your Luger refinished itâ??s highly unlikely the issue of a swapped part would come up as the pistol will obviously be a â??shooterâ?� - and whether or not it appears to be matching wonâ??t matter. But it would be wise to be aware that part swapping does not create a matching pistol.


Hope this helps!


Best regards,


Kyrie