Real Tool Pouch, Or Not...?

Navy · 12-29-2002, 10:33 PM

Hi Pete,

Regrettably, my lack of time (I rolled from one client to the next on Dec 21 and have yet to have a day off since Nov 20! In consultant parlance-Thanks Kyrie-This is called a "State of Grace") and lack of technological skills when it comes to computer stuff precludes my doing pix and scanning. Hell's bells, I have yet to be successful at posting a single picture here without assistance.

No matter what is in the books...there is a lot of misleading or erroneous info in the "books". Datig is well out dated; Kenyon's wonderful Lugers at Random is likewise showing it's age as new info has become available. Harry Jones, well, Harry has passed on but his book is a good thing to have if one is interested in tracing a thread of information or misinformation. Jan's books are the best on the subject but he will tell you that they contain inaccuracies. Bender's books are likewise very valuable, but have flaws and Sam Costanzo's work, monumental though it may be, is not exactly gospel truth. While I am a vigorous supporter of buying, reading and studying the "books", I never believe that anyone should accept things on face value, simply because they are in a "book".

As a matter of fact, an extremely well known and respected author(one of those mentioned above) has confided to me that at least 2 Lugers portrayed in his book are replicas...that is as in Fakes.Of course, he was absolutely unaware of this at the time he went to press.

Please be intellectually vigorous and challenge prevailing thought when your hypothesis is logical. Merely because a collector or author or, CAVEAT EMPTOR, a dealer, regardless of his reputation, asserts something does not make it so.

My zwei pfennigs, since I have probably pissed off several people with this post.

Tom A

12-29-2002, 10:33 PM	#5
Navy RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Dc 'burbs in Virginia Posts: 2,482 Thanks: 0 Thanked 16 Times in 10 Posts	Hi Pete, Regrettably, my lack of time (I rolled from one client to the next on Dec 21 and have yet to have a day off since Nov 20! In consultant parlance-Thanks Kyrie-This is called a "State of Grace") and lack of technological skills when it comes to computer stuff precludes my doing pix and scanning. Hell's bells, I have yet to be successful at posting a single picture here without assistance. No matter what is in the books...there is a lot of misleading or erroneous info in the "books". Datig is well out dated; Kenyon's wonderful Lugers at Random is likewise showing it's age as new info has become available. Harry Jones, well, Harry has passed on but his book is a good thing to have if one is interested in tracing a thread of information or misinformation. Jan's books are the best on the subject but he will tell you that they contain inaccuracies. Bender's books are likewise very valuable, but have flaws and Sam Costanzo's work, monumental though it may be, is not exactly gospel truth. While I am a vigorous supporter of buying, reading and studying the "books", I never believe that anyone should accept things on face value, simply because they are in a "book". As a matter of fact, an extremely well known and respected author(one of those mentioned above) has confided to me that at least 2 Lugers portrayed in his book are replicas...that is as in Fakes.Of course, he was absolutely unaware of this at the time he went to press. Please be intellectually vigorous and challenge prevailing thought when your hypothesis is logical. Merely because a collector or author or, CAVEAT EMPTOR, a dealer, regardless of his reputation, asserts something does not make it so. My zwei pfennigs, since I have probably pissed off several people with this post. Tom A