Sir, you should at least sign your name. Your sarcasim I can do without.
YES, I am prejudiced, as I have read the same info and felt it was a good product, even tho the author did not feel so.
My comments are my own, and since I was honest enough to say that it was a quick review over 3 days, yes, that is true, I wanted a feeling of the books and not a complete review.
Did I say that my rewivew was all encompassing? No, I sure did not? I said that the books are?
I said that the books are worthwhile to buy, they have tons of good information in them.
I am not involved in the controversy between Geoffrey and in fact do not know him. Besides many old-time dealers, the only name I saw in the credits of someone I personally knew was Ron Wood; the reason I bring that up is that obviously Mr. Sturgess does not associate with many members of NAPCA or the two forums, to include Jan Still. That is fine, but since the internet is here to stay, not involving many well known collectors is a shame.
Well, the S code I believe is a wrong assumption. I have heard this for years and to include in the new Mauser book by Joop and Don. If it is a secret code then why is the Simson and co used at the same time, right up to the end of production? Taking the other side of the fence, perhaps it is a code if used like the byf and the Banner used by Mauser? but I do not beleive that Simson made lugers for the commericial market.
I don't have all the answers, I can say that it is something I have reasearched and read about from other people.
From what I have read, the authors, Sturgess and Gortz state that the factual information was not changed, but by moving information things were put in the wrong context. I beleive i addressed that, in adddtion, I said twice that I felt this was a worthwhile book to purchase, if that is stradeling the fence, then so be it.
Ed
BTW, Goertz is spelled correctly when you don't use a umlaut, if I am wrong on this, please correct me.
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