"Shoot through a tree"

newluger · 01-16-2012, 01:15 PM

I started working for the government, at the Alameda Naval Air Station, Alameda Ca., in 1961. Prior to that time, I worked in a couple of pawn shops in downtown Oakland. One afternoon, around 1959, this guy comes into the pawn shop, and with him, a like new Luger with holster along with an extra magazine. He tells the story that his brother, during the war, raided a German arsenal, and the Luger was a war trophy. He wanted to sell it and I gave him $50.00 for it. He never returned to pick it up and I remember that in sat in the gun display case for some time. I distinctly remember the amber coloring and the newness of it. The memory haunted me for years, and maybe it's that memory that got me into collecting Lugers. It sure was a beauty!

01-16-2012, 01:15 PM	#14
newluger User Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Franklin Tennessee Posts: 119 Thanks: 22 Thanked 10 Times in 7 Posts	I started working for the government, at the Alameda Naval Air Station, Alameda Ca., in 1961. Prior to that time, I worked in a couple of pawn shops in downtown Oakland. One afternoon, around 1959, this guy comes into the pawn shop, and with him, a like new Luger with holster along with an extra magazine. He tells the story that his brother, during the war, raided a German arsenal, and the Luger was a war trophy. He wanted to sell it and I gave him $50.00 for it. He never returned to pick it up and I remember that in sat in the gun display case for some time. I distinctly remember the amber coloring and the newness of it. The memory haunted me for years, and maybe it's that memory that got me into collecting Lugers. It sure was a beauty!