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08-01-2005, 10:54 PM | #1 |
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RARE Navy mag on Ebay
Now I have seen everything I am not a Navy collector, but this is really wrong. Anchor marked! Stamped! More like carved!
http://cgi.ebay.com/WW1-German-Luger...QQcmdZViewItem |
08-01-2005, 11:24 PM | #2 |
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With the outlandish prices several questionable items have been going for lately, why not try something as preposterous (read faked) as this to make a few bucks? After all, what teeth do the ignorant e-bay "police" really have? Occasionally an illegal frame appears for auction and is not caught. Hopefully the members of this Forum are educated by our experts and will never make a mistake and bid for something so obviously spurious.
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08-02-2005, 11:06 AM | #3 |
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Nope...this is the very rare magazine for the one-of-a-kind luger that belonged to "Popeye"......anchors away, matey...
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08-02-2005, 11:18 AM | #4 |
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This is the "gentleman" that convinced me to change my e-bay screen name from 66mustang, I had a couple of people think he was me, since he dealt in luger items... I felt that since he has 7 negatives (or whatever he had at the time), I would rather not compete against his rep versus mine...
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I emailed him the following. We'll see if he updates his auction?
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08-02-2005, 12:14 PM | #6 |
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He also is selling a black FXO mag as a HK mag :
http://cgi.ebay.com/WW11-Krieghoff-L...QQcmdZViewItem I have offered to send him some photo scans from the Gibson HK book... |
08-02-2005, 09:08 PM | #7 |
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I think this one with the anchor is probably the HK mag. Rare and desirable :-)
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08-03-2005, 11:58 PM | #8 |
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It has two bidders now. My dilemma is should I inform the bidders that the mag is bogus? I gave the seller the opportunity to correct the listing before there were any bids and he did not. What say you all?
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08-04-2005, 07:24 AM | #9 |
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Hi Doug,
Inform the bidders; it is the right thing to do. Tom A |
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Tom is correct. To allow someone to be a victim of fraud isn't right.
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08-04-2005, 12:23 PM | #11 |
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I emailed them about the mag. They can't say they weren't warned.
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08-04-2005, 02:55 PM | #12 |
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thanks for emailing them Doug.
Herr Trautman is a member of the forum, but I don't think he visits us very often... I also emailed him about this item to warn him. I don't know the other fellow...
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08-07-2005, 12:20 AM | #13 |
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John Sabato
I communicate with Gerhardt and have also emailed him about the magazine, that is sufficient warning for him. Gerhardt usually is into good stuff only so he may have his reasons. |
08-07-2005, 05:20 PM | #14 |
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The anchor on the above mag is of the Jap Navy type. Other that the number being backwards, he may have just missed the nationality. TH
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