G.W.
Just spent a little more time running through the Lugers on Simpson, and he appears to be using the system of nomenclature you can find in Kenyon's "Luger's at Random."
That system is anathema to Don, Ron, and Dwight, but lots of collectors still use and prefer it (Simpson being a case in point).
Speaking purely for myself, I think the "Kenyon" system lacks precision, but I understand it when it is spoken to me. OTOH, while I like Still's system of nomenclature, I feel it has its own set of flaws (not the least of which is incompleteness, occasioned by the avoidance of Lugers that don't fit neatly into his system).
In any event, my feeling is that the value of any system of nomenclature is entirely in the ability of the system to serve as a verbal shorthand that facilitates communication between Luger collectors, when said collectors are trying to describe a Luger that not everyone in the discussion can see and touch.
My best advice is to learn as many systems of nomenclature as are in common usage, and learn how to recognize which system is being spoken to you at the moment. Most of the issues we have had in this thread are rooted in people thinking all parties were speaking the same language when that was not really the case.
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