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Originally Posted by opoefc
In my experience, foreign copies of S&Ws have very little value and appeal to collectors only as oddities. The exception being the Ludwig Lowe copies and the Russian copies by Tula or other Russian armories. Ed.
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I concur with Dad ( Ed oopefc ). Ludwig & Loew (spelling) and Tula copies are higher grade.
Mexican, South American and Spanish copies usually show up in awful and prematurely worn condition from shoddy materials and workmanship.
While Belgian made guns are a good quality (as referring to Belgian Brownings and the like) the Belgian #3 copies are usually just flat out awful.
I would not suggest you even consider the purchase you mentioned, especially if you cannot do a "hands on" inspection of it.