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Conventional wisdom here is, if you want to truly know what you are doing in the world of Luger collecting, read the source books on the topic.
This may -seem- obvious, and its easy to say (as I have) yeah, thats a good idea which I agree with completely, but I have a limited amount of money which I find myself spending on Lugers rather on books about them. I have intended to buy one book at every gun show, but it never seems to happen. Well, at the last Portland show I missed a Luger I really should have bought, and couldn't strike a deal on another, and so found myself with a little more money in hand than usual. So instead I bought three books (for the record, Imperial Lugers and Weimer Lugers, and the Gortz/Bryans book on German Small Arms Markings). What an epiphany! Even a quick scan shows that a very large percentage of the questions which get asked on this forum can be answered directly from the books. Not that they shouldn't be asked--I have asked my share, and new Luger owners will continue to aks them (as, I am sure, will I, and the rest of us)--but we all owe thanks to the patience and willingness of the real experts here to answer us anyway. There are a couple other aspects to the books. In the first place, they are fun! All these Lugers, all these details, every page a new present to open! Secondly, and more seriously, knowledge gained by one's own effort is knowledge never forgotten. In Imperial Lugers I ran into a two-page spread detailing the orders for marking the P-08. In it, it shows a specification that ejectors are marked. Now, we all know that DWM paid little attention to these orders, but Erfurt followed them almost slavishly. So, I pulled out my new Efrurt LP08 and checked. Sure enough, a teenytiny little inspector's stamp on the ejector surface, almost a pinprick, gone unnoticed by me and almost unnoticeable, until I learned about it. (You'll find a photo of it elsewhere in the Forum.) I would never have thought to see this mark before I learned about it in the book. I will never again see an Erfurt Luger without noticing it--or, perhaps more importantly, its absence. There are other examples. I have some, I expect that others here do as well. Knowledge is power, and fun. If you are one of those who have yet to start a Luger library, I highly recommend buying a book. If you have, then buy another. (Oh, and read it...) --Dwight |
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Dwight, Very well put. Nice photo of the ejector too! I totally agree with you. I have every book I know about and yes I could have bought a nice Luger for that money. I am happy to have made that trade off as it has served me well. Like you say reading Luger books is a joy and each turned page is like a present! I particularly like Jan Stills publications, the photo's are sharp and let you see most of what there is to see. I am constantly disapointed in some books because they do not show all angles of what I would like to see. Just me I suppose. Jerry Burney
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Well said Dwight.
We hear this litney about books and rightly so. I love them and will order another, but have to decide between Weimer and the new Dutch one with the cool pictures. I think the ones with knowledge is great, but sometimes the pictures in action is pleasing to sit back and relax. Interesting about the ejector, I have never actually torn down my Erfurt Arty, it is reblued (but I guess worth more than the 600 to 700 I thought it was possibly worth to people, ref the recent thread on artillerys for sale on the forum [img]smile.gif[/img] ). Anyway, it is reblued and I have assumed a lot of the proofs and markings were gone, it was buffed pretty bad by some idiot and not me years ago. I will take my assorted guns at some point and compare them.
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