Lefusil - I agree with your point that Lindner should not be thought of as a "maker" in the same sense that you might think of J.P. Sauer as a "maker" for example. Heinrich was certainly bringing in action forgings, ,barrels, etc., and of course, the volume of guns he "made" were orders of magnitude less than the big German names. Based on Hans Pfingsten's research, Lindner used a network of his own staff (6-12) plus outworkers to complete/finish the guns.
The gray area in these discussions is always on the definition of what constitutes a "gun maker" and where a particular maker falls on that spectrum - from doing absolutely everything in-house at one end to simply engraving one's name on the action on the other.
Last edited by Ken Georgi; 04/20/18 05:31 PM.
