New to me Arty Luger

Florida Marine · 08-23-2010, 09:46 PM

One magazine is a light silver, one is black... Sadly my Godfather had the one stored in the holster (as was the pistol) and it had some surface rust. I am betting if he didn't store this in the holster it would have less surface issues.

The story behind this was my dad had FIVE foot lockers of German weapons when I was a kid, he was cleaning them for the secretary at work (her father was in the OSI and brought them back from WWII). It had every imaginable kind of weapon, arty lugers with the wood case, regular barrel and some snub nose versions. He took several as payment and she sold the remaining for... $500.00.

My dad almost had a coronary. He was pretty upset. There were presentation swords, youth knives...it was huge. This was like 1974 or so, but I remember him working on these for a few months every night. Over the years we had to sell several to make ends meet - this is the last one that he gave to my Godfather form some reason (he could not remember and dad is dead...so no telling)

I will not sell it. My son will get this and my entire weapons collection when I pass along.

08-23-2010, 09:46 PM	#11
Florida Marine User Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	One magazine is a light silver, one is black... Sadly my Godfather had the one stored in the holster (as was the pistol) and it had some surface rust. I am betting if he didn't store this in the holster it would have less surface issues. The story behind this was my dad had FIVE foot lockers of German weapons when I was a kid, he was cleaning them for the secretary at work (her father was in the OSI and brought them back from WWII). It had every imaginable kind of weapon, arty lugers with the wood case, regular barrel and some snub nose versions. He took several as payment and she sold the remaining for... $500.00. My dad almost had a coronary. He was pretty upset. There were presentation swords, youth knives...it was huge. This was like 1974 or so, but I remember him working on these for a few months every night. Over the years we had to sell several to make ends meet - this is the last one that he gave to my Godfather form some reason (he could not remember and dad is dead...so no telling) I will not sell it. My son will get this and my entire weapons collection when I pass along.