1958 Luger Ads...

Johnny C. Kitchens · 02-18-2008, 08:54 PM

Just imagine them at these prices...

This RARE one. 7 inches???

Edward Tinker · 02-18-2008, 10:45 PM

Johnny, good to hear from you. I'll take 10 of these, each

Ed

Steinar · 02-19-2008, 05:07 AM

http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/uscompare/

In 2006, $49.85 from 1958 is worth:

$347.50 using the Consumer Price Index
$283.48 using the GDP deflator
$464.59 using the value of consumer bundle
$435.25 using the unskilled wage
$817.68 using the nominal GDP per capita
$1,407.87 using the relative share of GDP

..I'm still confused..

davidkachel · 02-20-2008, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Morgan Kane
[B][url]h..I'm still confused...

NOW you're getting smart!

GerColctor · 02-20-2008, 09:23 PM

Notice that the smaller LP-08 add is offering nickel finish models for $10 additional.

Joe

Dan44 · 02-20-2008, 09:29 PM

I wonder how many of those are vet bringbacks now?

GerColctor · 02-20-2008, 09:57 PM

Only the nickel finished ones.

RylanBrissette · 02-21-2008, 11:43 AM

I wonder if anyone complained about the price back then? lol it would be funny to hear that now, with the current prices...

"Those holster prices are outrageous, I'm not paying $5.50!"

davidkachel · 02-21-2008, 01:29 PM

I remember a gun show in Yuma Arizona, my first, in about 1966-7. One of the things that most impressed me was one dealer with a huge quantity of Lugers. Propped upright they were two guns deep and two or three tables long. Don't remember what I thought of the prices as that was a time when many/most of us had unkind thoughts about anyone who would deal in things "Nazi" related.
Now Jay Leno can ask random young people on the street who it was we fought in WWII and NO ONE(!) knows. Very scary indeed.

John Sabato · 02-21-2008, 02:28 PM

That Dealer was probably Ralph Shattuck...

Johnny, please check your PM's.

davidkachel · 02-21-2008, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by John Sabato
That Dealer was probably Ralph Shattuck...

That never occurred to me but you are probably right.

MikeP · 02-23-2008, 04:57 AM

I remember "back then" quite well, though I was a lad.
Answer is that $50 was a lot of money.
Holsters stayed at 5 bucks for a long time.
Prices at shows were cheaper than the ads.
Tables full of lugers were common, and most were bringbacks.
I remember a guy who used to "white" all the markings and thought they looked cool. Some folks got to thinking this was original.
Guy down the rioad gave a souvenier Luger to two friends of mine for a day's work when money was tight.

I think generally folks had less spending money.
Biggest differnce is there was no need for fakery, or humping and there were so many varieties available.
Including all the really neat nickled ones with stag or plexiglass grips.

wlyon · 02-23-2008, 10:26 AM

Yes in 1958, 50 dollars was a lot of money. I had recently been discharged from the Navy and was in college (GI bill ). I had a matching 1940 luger in a near mint holster. Needed money so I sold it at a local gunshop for $45. That paid my wifes and my rent for a month. Bill

Ron Smith · 02-23-2008, 11:18 AM

Picked Blue Lake green beans every summer to help pay for school clothes. At the end of the season we would get a check for about $75- $95 if you were a good and fast picker at 2.5 cents per pound.

The old Eugene Surplus store had Lugers for $35-$50 each. And a wooden pickle barrel full of M-1 Carbines, marked "Your choice $12". After buying school clothes all I could do was look.

Rod WMG · 02-23-2008, 11:47 AM

Okay, a trip down memory lane.

I remember an older boy, probably repeating what his parents had said, speculating that an oilfied supervisor in our rural West Texas area probably made $300 a month (he also was furnished a house). I had no idea whether that was a lot or not in the late 1940's or early '50's; it was said in such a way that it was a staggering amount. I didn't even know how much my dad made. I do remember my father picking cotton on his days off to supplement income. He'd drive 20 miles or so to where the picking was being done and make a few dollars per day.

We were poor I found out later, but no one was a lot better off, so I didn't notice.

policeluger · 02-23-2008, 12:21 PM

For some reason I saved a Shot Gun News from 1965, of all the ads, the one that get me the most is for a 1928 Thompson for $675.00.....and Luger tools for $1.25....some new luger collector in Michigan, Ralph something....

cirelaw · 02-23-2008, 07:53 PM

Back in 1981, my tuition at Villanova Shool of Law was $7k to $10k in 1981 my best investment ever. My first lesson was a third of anything and everything. PS I paid back my student loans.

SS109 · 03-07-2008, 10:20 PM

But the guns were only 20-40 years old then! Now they are 65 to 90 years old.

02-18-2008, 08:54 PM	#1
Johnny C. Kitchens User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Arlington, Texas Posts: 518 Thanks: 0 Thanked 20 Times in 8 Posts	1958 Luger Ads... Just imagine them at these prices... This RARE one. 7 inches??? __________________ Johnny C. Kitchens

02-18-2008, 10:45 PM	#2
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,935 Thanks: 2,034 Thanked 4,533 Times in 2,093 Posts	Johnny, good to hear from you. I'll take 10 of these, each Ed __________________ Edward Tinker ************ Co-Author of Police Lugers - Co-Author of Simson Lugers Author of Veteran Bring Backs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III and Vol IV

02-19-2008, 05:07 AM	#3
Steinar User Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 1,538 Thanks: 18 Thanked 36 Times in 21 Posts	http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/uscompare/ In 2006, $49.85 from 1958 is worth: $347.50 using the Consumer Price Index $283.48 using the GDP deflator $464.59 using the value of consumer bundle $435.25 using the unskilled wage $817.68 using the nominal GDP per capita $1,407.87 using the relative share of GDP ..I'm still confused.. __________________ Previously known as Morgan Kane

02-20-2008, 09:23 PM	#5
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 312 Thanks: 2 Thanked 45 Times in 29 Posts	Notice that the smaller LP-08 add is offering nickel finish models for $10 additional. Joe __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.

02-20-2008, 09:57 PM	#7
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 312 Thanks: 2 Thanked 45 Times in 29 Posts	Only the nickel finished ones. __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.

02-20-2008, 09:29 PM	#6
Dan44 User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 78 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	I wonder how many of those are vet bringbacks now?

02-21-2008, 11:43 AM	#8
RylanBrissette User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 189 Thanks: 4 Thanked 6 Times in 4 Posts	I wonder if anyone complained about the price back then? lol it would be funny to hear that now, with the current prices... "Those holster prices are outrageous, I'm not paying $5.50!"

02-21-2008, 01:29 PM	#9
davidkachel User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 784 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	I remember a gun show in Yuma Arizona, my first, in about 1966-7. One of the things that most impressed me was one dealer with a huge quantity of Lugers. Propped upright they were two guns deep and two or three tables long. Don't remember what I thought of the prices as that was a time when many/most of us had unkind thoughts about anyone who would deal in things "Nazi" related. Now Jay Leno can ask random young people on the street who it was we fought in WWII and NO ONE(!) knows. Very scary indeed. __________________ A heroin habit would be cheaper.

02-21-2008, 02:28 PM	#10
John Sabato Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Capital of the Free World Posts: 10,154 Thanks: 3,003 Thanked 2,306 Times in 1,097 Posts	That Dealer was probably Ralph Shattuck... Johnny, please check your PM's. __________________ regards, -John S "...We hold these truths to be self-evident that ALL men are created EQUAL *and are endowed by their Creator* with certain UNALIENABLE* rights, and among these are life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness..."*

02-23-2008, 04:57 AM	#12
MikeP User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ILL Posts: 686 Thanks: 36 Thanked 452 Times in 198 Posts	I remember "back then" quite well, though I was a lad. Answer is that $50 was a lot of money. Holsters stayed at 5 bucks for a long time. Prices at shows were cheaper than the ads. Tables full of lugers were common, and most were bringbacks. I remember a guy who used to "white" all the markings and thought they looked cool. Some folks got to thinking this was original. Guy down the rioad gave a souvenier Luger to two friends of mine for a day's work when money was tight. I think generally folks had less spending money. Biggest differnce is there was no need for fakery, or humping and there were so many varieties available. Including all the really neat nickled ones with stag or plexiglass grips.

02-23-2008, 10:26 AM	#13
wlyon Lifer 2X Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: May 2005 Location: Somewhere in Montana Posts: 2,637 Thanks: 3,174 Thanked 2,561 Times in 956 Posts	Yes in 1958, 50 dollars was a lot of money. I had recently been discharged from the Navy and was in college (GI bill ). I had a matching 1940 luger in a near mint holster. Needed money so I sold it at a local gunshop for $45. That paid my wifes and my rent for a month. Bill __________________ Bill Lyon

02-23-2008, 11:18 AM	#14
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	Picked Blue Lake green beans every summer to help pay for school clothes. At the end of the season we would get a check for about $75- $95 if you were a good and fast picker at 2.5 cents per pound. The old Eugene Surplus store had Lugers for $35-$50 each. And a wooden pickle barrel full of M-1 Carbines, marked "Your choice $12". After buying school clothes all I could do was look. __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

02-23-2008, 11:47 AM	#15
Rod WMG User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Edge of Texas Posts: 514 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Okay, a trip down memory lane. I remember an older boy, probably repeating what his parents had said, speculating that an oilfied supervisor in our rural West Texas area probably made $300 a month (he also was furnished a house). I had no idea whether that was a lot or not in the late 1940's or early '50's; it was said in such a way that it was a staggering amount. I didn't even know how much my dad made. I do remember my father picking cotton on his days off to supplement income. He'd drive 20 miles or so to where the picking was being done and make a few dollars per day. We were poor I found out later, but no one was a lot better off, so I didn't notice.

02-23-2008, 12:21 PM	#16
policeluger RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ca. Posts: 2,141 Thanks: 8 Thanked 89 Times in 54 Posts	For some reason I saved a Shot Gun News from 1965, of all the ads, the one that get me the most is for a 1928 Thompson for $675.00.....and Luger tools for $1.25....some new luger collector in Michigan, Ralph something....

02-23-2008, 07:53 PM	#17
cirelaw Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA Posts: 12,216 Thanks: 6,209 Thanked 4,133 Times in 2,173 Posts	Back in 1981, my tuition at Villanova Shool of Law was $7k to $10k in 1981 my best investment ever. My first lesson was a third of anything and everything. PS I paid back my student loans.

03-07-2008, 10:20 PM	#18
SS109 User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Jefferson, CO Posts: 56 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	But the guns were only 20-40 years old then! Now they are 65 to 90 years old. __________________ 1916 LP08 1923 9mm P08 Commercial Import 1920 .30 Luger Commercial