Mando'a wrote: . . . I see them quite a bit at local gunshows, but they tend to run between $500 to $700 dollars.
That's a good price for a mechanically sound "shooter" grade Luger, unless it's rusty and pitted.The better ones on Gunbroker seem to have awfully high reserve prices . . . most have been listed a long time with no bids. I figure the seller is just waiting for a fish to swim by . . .
I've been looking for one myself, just to add as a representative sample for my collection, but all the halfway decent ones I've seen are going for WELL over the $500-$700 price point because they're a "rare variation" (there are >3000 Luger variations known) or have some "history" with them . ("All that pitting came from the blood of the Nazi general who died fighting my grandpa in WWI")
Buy the gun, not the story. Duh.
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As for 1911s . . . my Dad carried one in WWII, made by Ithaca like the one mentioned in an earlier post. He often told me he regretted not bringing it home. If I knew the serial number, I'd be keeping an eye out for it . . . but I'm afraid that information is lost forever in the mists of history.
