sideplate #99 needed

Thanks, dgp42. I wasn't even going to dignify that cheap shot from the sideplate collector with a reply, because my daddy always told me never to get into a pissing contest with a skunk. In this instance, I make an exception. Since I am only a general collector, perhaps this eminent specialist knows something about Lugers that I don't. This is the first time that I've ever heard that replacing a replaced part with a correct one has anything to do with ethics. There's one thing I know for sure; this clown has no graduate degree in philosophy, nor in diplomacy. Perhaps a Dale Carnegie course would be a good start. If the pistol came to me without a sideplate at all, would it be OK for me to complete the pistol, and, if, perchance, I found one with the same number, would that be more inappropriate than using one of the other 99 possibilities? Since his extra sideplates are not to be applied to guns, perhaps he should seek another matching one and make a pair of earrings.