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I will use a new post to respond to one point. The so-called "double date" Lugers are not necessarily conversions.
In 1920 Germany, torn by factional strife and horrendous imflation, possession of military arms by civilians was made a crime, but individuals who had such guns could turn them in without punishment. Those guns were then marked with the year they were "accepted" by the government. After that, private possession of any weapon without that mark was illegal; any weapon with it found in private hands was stolen government property.
Many of those "double date" guns were later used by police and the German armed forces, captured in WWII and brought back to the US. Some did undergo alterations of various sorts, but that is not what the double date indicates.
Jim
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