Oh the horror!

My Grandfather was a pilot back in WWII and went down behind German lines. He made it back and brought with him a nickel plated Luger taken from a German officer. He has kept this heirloom locked up for decades. Recently I contacted my Grandfather about it, I was going to have it appraised for him. If it was valuable he could sell it, with recent extra medical costs I thought he could use it) or keep it (I would not have minded inheriting this heirloom and would never sell it).

But I was shocked and horrified to find that one of my liberal relatives had already coaxed him into parting with it for $150 to a damn pawn shop/gun store. It makes me so mad and I feel like part of my Grandfather's history was stolen from him (his pistol certainly was!).

That's fucked up, did you try to buy it from the pawn shop?

Man, that is GAY!

Liberal relatives should be disowned and eaten...

But, yeah.. try to buy it back from the pawn shop (make sure you try to convince the owner it's a cheapo knock off luger, turn on the BS generator)

Originally Posted By OBLIMINON: But, yeah.. try to buy it back from the pawn shop (make sure you try to convince the owner it's a cheapo knock off luger, turn on the BS generator)

good luck with that. Pawn shops think even junk guns must be worth a fortune once they are in the glass gun case.

Hope he gets it back regardless.

And you need to give your liberal relative a good kick in the stones for a stunt like that.

I was a sale, not a pawn job. They of course turned around and sold it for a much higher cost, I have no idea what it brought. I do not know for a fact the value but I have seen similar Lugers listed at about $3500. Certainly worth more than the $150.

A nickel plated Luger would only fetch $500-$650 because it has been refinished probably just after the war. Many captured Lugers were plated in Europe (not factory work) before the GIs came home. The plus side is that all German made Lugers will continue to appreciate in price as they were made well and there is a limited quantity of them made. There were no factory issed Lugers finished with nickel plating. During WWI there were finished with rust bluing along with straw finished parts and some fire blued finished parts. This continued until around 1937 when the finish was generally changed to all parts of the Luger salt blued. Some Krieghoff Lugers were finished a little differently.

Originally Posted By Thor340: A nickel plated Luger would only fetch $500-$650 because it has been refinished probably just after the war. Many captured Lugers were plated in Europe (not factory work) before the GIs came home. The plus side is that all German made Lugers will continue to appreciate in price as they were made well and there is a limited quantity of them made. There were no factory issed Lugers finished with nickel plating. During WWI there were finished with rust bluing along with straw finished parts and some fire blued finished parts. This continued until around 1937 when the finish was generally changed to all parts of the Luger salt blued. Some Krieghoff Lugers were finished a little differently.

Thor is absolutely correct regarding nickel plated Lugers. However, I would still be pissed about a Luger leaving home for a buck and a half.

Originally Posted By Brownie63: Thor is absolutely correct regarding nickel plated Lugers. However, I would still be pissed about a Luger leaving home for a buck and a half.

I would be as much pissed at having a libtard in the family............

I cannot see my Grandfather having it refinished, to the best of my knowledge that the condition he obtained it in. I know he never fired it and never had ammunition for the pistol. I guess we will never know anything about it now.

Originally Posted By Recon_by_Fire: I cannot see my Grandfather having it refinished, to the best of my knowledge that the condition he obtained it in.

There were never any nickle plated or chrome plated Lugers made by the OEM mfgrs.

There was the SS Luger that came out in the early 1980s, could this have maybe been it?

Originally Posted By BobCole: There was the SS Luger that came out in the early 1980s, could this have maybe been it?

No this was definitely a WWII trophy. Maybe i'm mistaken on the finish, I haven't seen the pistol in probably a good 30 years almost!

It's possible the officer had the pistol plated himself or it was given to him as a gift. Many officers had 'private purchase headgear made.

Doesn't really matter now, it is gone forver and at $150

I feel for ya.

I had an asshole uncle who pawned my grandfather's Luger. Grandpa used to tell me stories about shooting it. I was too young at the time to ask what kind it was or where he got it. I'll never know.

I foolishly passed on a silver-colored Luger at a gun show a few years ago. I couldn't tell if it was just in the white or if it was plated. It looked rough and I didn't think it was worth the $300 she was asking. Doh!

At the gun show last weekend German police-refurbished Lugers were going for $1,295.

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