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Unread 04-09-2022, 12:27 AM   #1
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I picked up this 08 First Issue at Tulsa this past weekend. S#98 no suffix. all matching including mag. It was a really good show for me. I sold 4 Luger rigs and an early slotted Radam. I had a wad of cash, so I went hunting.
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Nice find; about as early as one could find!
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Beautiful luger.
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I have a question...

Do you think a low number/no-suffix is more valuable than a comparable Luger, same era, same condition, with ser # 1736f ???

Did you/would you, pay more just to get that low # 98 no-suffix???
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You can bet on it..........
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No. The historical significance does not change with a high or low serial number. This is strictly a production number. Again this is a individual collectors thing. If you like low numbers fine. I would not pay a dime more for it. Very nice luger. Bill
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Agree with you Bill, but an early item makes me go, oh, baby, baby

This is an outstanding specimen
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Nice gun. No holdopen. Unaltered, with a nice regiment stamp on the gripstrap. And probably one of the earliest serial numbers you could find. Sure, I'd pay more for that pistol over a later one.
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Very nice find, nice pistol
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No. The historical significance does not change with a high or low serial number. This is strictly a production number. Again this is a individual collectors thing. If you like low numbers fine. I would not pay a dime more for it. Very nice luger. Bill
I agree with Bill. Same applies to my Savage .32 auto with ser # 1234. Just a number, denotes nothing.

But I'm not a collector. I just accumulate.

But I will keep in mind that my low-number 1900AE is worth more.

Now, if you could link the low number 98 to the machine gun company on the grip, that would be interesting. Maybe find a posed pic of the gun crew, and a letter assigning the gun to that crew, and make up a rig to go with it and a diorama showing all the stuff together, with a helmet and belt etc...That would be money...
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It is one of the first 100 P.08s made! To some that's worth more... including me. I certainly paid a premium for it. I haven't seen are heard of a lower serial number P.08, but I'm sure they are out there.

Thanks for all the responses.
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I agree with Bill. Same applies to my Savage .32 auto with ser # 1234. Just a number, denotes nothing.
Reminds me of when William Mattar's Luger made an appearance on the forum... #4444
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Reminds me of when William Mattar's Luger made an appearance on the forum... #4444
I have an orphan wood bottom mag w/#4444.
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This must be the Luger I heard about that was at Tulsa after I left. Glad I get to see it as I thought I had missed it. You never know what pops up at Tulsa!
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I have an orphan wood bottom mag w/#4444.
The Luger doesn't really belong to William Mattar. Mattar is an attorney here in WNY whose TV ad/jingo is "Hurt in a car? Call William Mattar. 716-444-4444".

Kind of a regional joke. For those of us with a peculiar sense of humor. Off topic, the local Target cell phone salesman uses Mattar's phone number to check that the new phone sale works - He calls 716-444-4444 and makes sure that Mattar's recording answers.

But there's dozens of #4444 Lugers. Maybe someone will see your post and contact you.
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We have seen on egun.de the :
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Patrice,
Thanks for the photo. I'm sure they were together at DWM and on the battlefield.
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Hi Mike, I think you really scored tall with this one! Super early, super nice, and un-altered....Just that one pistol is a collection all by itself to me! I have found the early number in a variation is still important, especially as a bargaining chip when selling... Early numbers when taking the whole life of a specific design a little better. As in, the first 100 model 1900's would carry a little more weight, but not much! You really have a keeper there... best to you my friend, til...lat'r...GT....
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G.T.,
Thanks, it seems I'm growing fonder of it each day.
The German Army purchased over 1.5 million Lugers from 1909 to 1942. To be in the first 100, IS the reason I bought it. I wasn't really looking for a First Issue, but when I saw it, the condition, unaltered, matched mag... etc. I thought, when will I ever see another comparable to it?

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