Known vs. Found Lugers

alvin · 10-31-2013, 06:56 AM

There is a reputable auction house "Amoskeag Auction Company" in Manchester NH (not too far away?). They carry Lugers and Mausers in almost every session. You can join their preview session, holding the guns in hand and look, no obligation to buy anything. But you will see more, making notes, and gradually align your view with their appraisers. After join many those sessions, gradually, you will be more critic, even disagree with certain professional's opinions on something. The only cost is time and gas.

I still search local stores... but not for Lugers and Mausers, only search cheap ammo, cleaning rod for Romanian AK, etc. They are good source on those. In this way, we can still keep our searching fun.

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[Edit] In old collector publications, we saw gun shows were an important facility to play this role. Nowadays, we saw people selling sniper rifle scopes, gun safes, knives, crystal stones, even cured meat in gun shows....well, to be fair, there are some Lugers in gun shows, but the crowd environment is far less comfortable than auction preview sessions. And, for new collector, those are "Lugers at Random", not a good starting point anyway.

10-31-2013, 06:56 AM	#6
alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	There is a reputable auction house "Amoskeag Auction Company" in Manchester NH (not too far away?). They carry Lugers and Mausers in almost every session. You can join their preview session, holding the guns in hand and look, no obligation to buy anything. But you will see more, making notes, and gradually align your view with their appraisers. After join many those sessions, gradually, you will be more critic, even disagree with certain professional's opinions on something. The only cost is time and gas. I still search local stores... but not for Lugers and Mausers, only search cheap ammo, cleaning rod for Romanian AK, etc. They are good source on those. In this way, we can still keep our searching fun. ==== [Edit] In old collector publications, we saw gun shows were an important facility to play this role. Nowadays, we saw people selling sniper rifle scopes, gun safes, knives, crystal stones, even cured meat in gun shows....well, to be fair, there are some Lugers in gun shows, but the crowd environment is far less comfortable than auction preview sessions. And, for new collector, those are "Lugers at Random", not a good starting point anyway.