[Ron Wood]

John D.
I applaud your comments on the works of these early Luger writers. It chaps my hide a bit when modern writers take excessive delight in pointing out errors in these seminal publications. It is perfectly OK to set the record straight in light of more recent research, and my hat is off to anyone today who can accomplish that without belittling the work of pioneers. Costanzo, Datig, Jones, Kenyon and Gibson were turning out the best information available at a time when few people could spell Luger correctly. Sure there are errors, quite a few of them, but those errors are insignificant compared to the vast body of knowledge they did get right. As you pointed out, it gave us the foundation upon which to base scolarship today. You can see a lot farther when you are standing on someone else's sholders.