Thumbs Up To The Luger Forum

[John Sabato]

Originally Posted by tharpo

Great post John S.! Very interesting history lesson about the Luger Forum!
So let me nit pick back.
The gun on the right on the patch appears to have a wood bottom magazine. Could it really be a 1936 Kreighoff?

Tom

If you are talking about the KH-gun on the yellow patch, the answer is yes. When I created the patch art, I used a professionally taken photograph of a Krieghoff that was owned by a prominent forum member. However, not wanting to attribute the "donor" gun to any particular member, I painstakingly removed all markings that were visible on the gun in that photograph. No serial numbers or proof marks or acceptance stamps remained when I used the modified photo for the patch artwork.

You know how some collectors know their own guns so well that they can tell them at a distance... well all my stamp obfuscation work was for naught, ...as the very next day after I posted the proposed patch prototype photo, I received a PM from the owner of the gun who asked "Is that photo my 1936 Krieghoff?"

He applauded my attempt to disguise the pistol to make it anonymous, but even though I had completely isolated the gun from its original background he laughed and said he "knew" as soon as he saw the artwork. Fortunately no one else had a clue.