Any Opinions...???

[Ron Wood]

I suspect that this Luger has good provenance and is probably documented. The inlayed monogram is actually made of various colors of gold that is achieved by alloying the gold with various amounts of silver and copper. The silver colored â??Aâ?� might actually be platinum. The â??Mâ?� is yellow gold, the highly stylized â??Tâ?� (which really more resembles an M rather than a T) is white gold slightly tinted yellow, and the â??Oâ?� is really a cartouche to â??fancy upâ?� the monogram and is in red gold which has a slightly higher percentage of copper. These differences in coloration are more easily seen in the auction pictures than in Peteâ??s enlarged picture. This combination of colored gold in firearm inlays is rare but not unprecedented.

The â??DEâ?� in the crossbar of the A is also more defined in the auction picture, so I think that it may have been distorted and caused look cruder because of the rotation and enlargement of the auction picture.

It could be a fake, but I believe it is genuine.