Those were the days

trigger643 · 04-28-2005, 09:41 PM

I just threw a copy of Datig's Luger Pistol on the "for sale" board. While thumbing through the pages I found this little item... I think the prices seem pretty fair... for 1962.

Walt NW · 04-28-2005, 11:20 PM

I remember them well. Stacks of 98K Mausers and .303 Enfields were in the department stores for $19.95. That was about the time I picked up my first Luger, a 1916 Erfurt, matched throughout including the mag and about 98% original finish........for $85. Resold and long gone. I would have done better holding on to it than playing the stock market. Bless the old German saying, "We grow so soon old, and so late smart".

trigger643 · 04-28-2005, 11:40 PM

When I first started collecting, a fellow member of WAC summed it up this way: When I bought my first matching luger it cost me $70.00, a month's wages. When you bought your first matching luger it cost you $900.00, a months wages. Today, we buy matching lugers at $2,000 and up.... a months wages (of course this was 1989). I wonder what ever happend to Murray Jacobson. He was a fixture at WAC in the years I was there, 1989-1991

04-28-2005, 09:41 PM	#1
trigger643 User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Murfreesboro Posts: 502 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Those were the days I just threw a copy of Datig's Luger Pistol on the "for sale" board. While thumbing through the pages I found this little item... I think the prices seem pretty fair... for 1962. Attached Thumbnails __________________ "There are three reasons to own a gun: To protect yourself and your family, to hunt dangerous and delicious animals, and to keep the King of England out of your face." Ã¢?? Krusty the Clown

04-28-2005, 11:40 PM	#3
trigger643 User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Murfreesboro Posts: 502 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	When I first started collecting, a fellow member of WAC summed it up this way: When I bought my first matching luger it cost me $70.00, a month's wages. When you bought your first matching luger it cost you $900.00, a months wages. Today, we buy matching lugers at $2,000 and up.... a months wages (of course this was 1989). I wonder what ever happend to Murray Jacobson. He was a fixture at WAC in the years I was there, 1989-1991 __________________ "There are three reasons to own a gun: To protect yourself and your family, to hunt dangerous and delicious animals, and to keep the King of England out of your face." Ã¢?? Krusty the Clown

04-28-2005, 11:20 PM	#2
Walt NW User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New Caney, Texas Posts: 90 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I remember them well. Stacks of 98K Mausers and .303 Enfields were in the department stores for $19.95. That was about the time I picked up my first Luger, a 1916 Erfurt, matched throughout including the mag and about 98% original finish........for $85. Resold and long gone. I would have done better holding on to it than playing the stock market. Bless the old German saying, "We grow so soon old, and so late smart".