Dwight,
1. The issue of "outing" the boosters and sellers of boosted items is another discussion for another day.
2. The fellows I know that relate the details of the Carl Wilson Baby luger and the Weiss testimonial letter want to remain anonymous, for differing reasons. One does not own a computer/Internet access and is well into his 80's. The other does participate on the the forum and gunboards and I will leave it up to him if he decides to jump in on the discussion about the Wilson Baby or not.
3. Several very old-time collectors related to me that when the first Baby luger appeared in the USA in the middle 1950's, only 4 were thought to exist; 2 in 7,65 cal and in 9 mm kurtz.
Sometime after that when the Datig books in 1955 and 1962 were issued, that number was speculated to be around 12 guns or so (not sure what the breakdown between the 2 calibers, was...)...Datig relating that this info. came from Weiss.
Subsequent authors such as Kenyon, Walter, Reese stayed with the number of Baby lugers at 4 in their writings through the 1960-late 1970's.
The details of why these subsequent authors did not follow the number of Baby guns at 12 or so may or may not be important. Yet those follow-up authors stayed with the number of 4.
One should also note that Harry Jones in 1959 and in the 1975 reprint of his book seems to make no mention of any Baby Lugers, at all. That may or may not have its own significance.
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