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Luger Pistol Valuation
When my old dad(God rest his weary old bones)came back to Scotland after WW11 he brought back a Luger Pistol and a few ammunition clips(to shoot rabbits for his dinner,he said),after he ran out of bullets me and my brothers used to play with it.My mam was always suspicious about it and one day she threw it into the nearest river.Anyone on here know what a WW11 Luger pistol in full working order would fetch on the open market nowadays?
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Prices seem to vary a lot, and most of the sales take place in the USA, which explains why most of the listed prices are in dollars. This one might give you some idea of price:
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That is basically the same gun we handled,[email protected] some kind of a museum would be interested.Has the Imperial War Museum got one of the ones we had?Never seen any photos of Hitler with one,but Himmler was seen using one.Dad got his in a place called Breslin.Any important Nazis there in 1945?
Breslin? I can't find any place with that name. Could it have been Breslau?
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@17.41.Unfortunately not Woofy.Just wondered what it would be worth nowadays.Mam had the best intentions at heart,did she not?Dad never spoke of his wartime experiences,all the stories we got was from Mam,who incidentally operated searchlights on some place called primrose hill during her time in the ATS.Whatever.
@17.53.I doubt it Woofy.According to the American website they only go for [email protected] be a bit rusty now,mam threw it into the river in 1968.Damn,and double damn.
I dont know about that,Shoots.All i know it was a sugerbeet farm(as told by my dad to my mam),to the east of Berlin.Anyway i have been told that quite a few German pistols were brought back to Britain after the war.Up here in North Scotland some veterans took back sub-machine guns and some took back entire machine guns.What they intended to do with them is anyones guess.
// who incidentally operated searchlights on some place called primrose hill during her time//
sarf london - would try to pick up bombers there and on the way back.
The british built proximity fuses which were capacitors which lost capacitance and ompleted the circuit near another metal object ( airplane)
AND two searchlight method - by 1944 if you were caught in searchlights ( one locked on and the other to triangulate) the link to AA batteries was so efficient that the chances of downing was 67%
and finally was your Dad British? being liberated by the Russians was not wanted by anyone. The fear of non return but Gulag instead was so strong that it led to the allies returning the cossacks to their own death at the hands of stalin, See Betrayal of Yalta
you should write this down before it is lost
sarf london - would try to pick up bombers there and on the way back.
The british built proximity fuses which were capacitors which lost capacitance and ompleted the circuit near another metal object ( airplane)
AND two searchlight method - by 1944 if you were caught in searchlights ( one locked on and the other to triangulate) the link to AA batteries was so efficient that the chances of downing was 67%
and finally was your Dad British? being liberated by the Russians was not wanted by anyone. The fear of non return but Gulag instead was so strong that it led to the allies returning the cossacks to their own death at the hands of stalin, See Betrayal of Yalta
you should write this down before it is lost
Yes,PP,my dad was Scottish.Was at Dunkirk then North Africa and then the Sicily landings and then onto Anzio.The London-Scottish regiment i believe.Dad said the Russians were treated horribly by the Germans,but treated worse by their own socialist brethren.So much for socialism,eh.Dad was a bit of a commie before the war,after the war he was a stolid Tory.As i am now.
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