"J" Suffix Question....

[Pete Ebbink]

In the 1986 edition of John Walther's book, "The Luger Book", on page 125; Walter states that "...the letter 'j' was not used as a suffix letter...".

Jan Still in his "3rd. Reich Lugers" book on page 16 also indicates j was "Not Used"...

What is the current thinking in regards to j suffices...? Were they used or not ?

If not used, what is the speculation about why the Germans skipped the suffix "j"...?

If not, our proof marks sheets in the Technical Information section on this Forum might need to be edited to delete reference to the j suffix. But I think these suffix charts came from a work by the late Joachim G�¶rtz. So was Mr. G�¶rtz wrong on this subject ?

As an interesting side note, Walter also states on page 125 that gun numbers went up to 10,000 (not 9,999) before starting over with a suffix added...

I recall a previous LF discussion about whether serial numbered "10000" guns are correct or not...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />