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If you want to see "strawing", polish a small piece of steel and sit it on the burner of an electric stove. Turn on the heat and watch the steel go to "straw" (gold), then to purple, then to blue.
You can still find some Lugers that were brought back from Eastern Europe a few years ago for under $500, but they will be mismatched and refinished. They will do for just a representative Luger, and will even increase in value. Look around at the gun shows and on the web auction sites, but there is a lot of fake and overpriced stuff out there.
There was a repro Luger being made, but I am not sure if it is still on the market. It was made in, I think, Texas, and was stainless steel.
Jim
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