Another Costanzo Book
 

Hi One and All!

There is another Costanzo book, copyright 1975 by Sam Costanzo which is also called World of Lugers, and also markde Volume 1 at the bottom of the front cover. It's complete title includes "Serial Numbers of Lugers Issued to German Agents in the United States 1913-1916."

I have a copy which I had to really search for. I mentioned this slim volume in passing to another knowledgeable collector who remarked that so many guns were supposedly issued to German spies that there must have been a German spy on every street corner! An interesting thought!

In the end I have to believe that some of the guns listed may indeed have been issued to German agents but perhaps credulity is strained by saying all of them were. These numbers may, instead, simply be all of the guns which passed through Tauscher's hands in his role as distributor.

Any thoughts out there?

Re: Another Costanzo Book
 

I have a copy of that book and no offense David, I found it pretty boring, unless of course I find one of my Lugers on the list Thor

Re: Another Costanzo Book
 

David, I have heard of this volume and have never seen a copy. The subject matter does not fall into my field of interest so I could not comment about it's authenticity. Hard to say about this early research and it's accuracy and how many German agents possesed Lugers in the U.S. , The German luger was and is a second or third or even last choice for an agent who was trying to hide a pistol considering the other choices available at the time.


I guess the main point of my previous posts was to challenge the statements made by Joe Delong and prompt him to come back to the discussion with something more substantial if indeed he had anything. So far he has come up empty handed and empty headed too. I welcome his explanation but I firmly believe he has none except to show all and sundry that he cannot back up his ungentlemanly and slanderous statements about a respected author and dedicated researcher, Mr. Costanzo. Jerry Burney

Re: Another Costanzo Book
 

Hello all, as of mid November, I know where there is a signed copy of Costanzo's book in Winter Haven Florida, unless one of y'all bought if?


It is for $175.00.


They have an extensive collection of books, with many gun books:


HAVEN BOOKS

3085 Cypress Gardens Road

Winter Haven, FL 33884 USA

Toll Free: 1 877 521 4387 (US)

Phone: 863 326 9491

Fax: 863 326 9518

Phone Hours: Tues-Fri 10am-5pm & Sat 10am-3pm


Ed