Why Are There so Fewew imports Markings on our Lugers

Heinz · 06-11-2021, 07:53 PM

IF you want to avoid import marks you are restricting yourself to the pool of guns imported before 1969. We, luger collectors, are an odd bunch and put a lot of evaluation into marks that were applied well after the luger was manufactured. Some of the marks are even applied in a god-awful haphazard fashion, yet we value them. We are now faced with a new government-required marking and some want to say that mark takes it completely out of the collector category. But this does not apply to British proof marks? Finish unit marks? Abercrombie and Fitch? Strange. I could understand a slight decrease in value. I recently bought two S&W revolvers with discreet import marks from Simpson Ltd. I paid a little less and I find them interesting, along with their german proof marks.

06-11-2021, 07:53 PM	#13
Heinz User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Greenville SC Posts: 1,004 Thanks: 377 Thanked 411 Times in 180 Posts	IF you want to avoid import marks you are restricting yourself to the pool of guns imported before 1969. We, luger collectors, are an odd bunch and put a lot of evaluation into marks that were applied well after the luger was manufactured. Some of the marks are even applied in a god-awful haphazard fashion, yet we value them. We are now faced with a new government-required marking and some want to say that mark takes it completely out of the collector category. But this does not apply to British proof marks? Finish unit marks? Abercrombie and Fitch? Strange. I could understand a slight decrease in value. I recently bought two S&W revolvers with discreet import marks from Simpson Ltd. I paid a little less and I find them interesting, along with their german proof marks.