eightbore:
First, although Gustav Fukert had Balkan States clients, Swedish and Russian clients, I can't say Fukert made Matska's guns but in the DGJ articles mentioned in the first post, Bill Wise or Geno mentioned that Matska sourced his frames or forging from Gustav Bittner, who with Gustav Fukert(German's had a typo in the patent application which resulted in Fuckert), Wenzel Morgenstern & Sohn, Eduard Schmidl and Elias Schwab formed a group headed by Rudolf Harnisch in 1887 to make the Mannlicher. This appears to have heavily funded them allowing an expansion in the hunting/sporting catagory. Very similar to Suhl, many makers sourced components from Weipert/Vejprty as it was a well of cottage industry, individual craftsmen and Matska apparently drew from the Weipert well. Then Johann Nowotny(1839-1893) is known to also have sourced components from Weipert as well as offered John Kilby tubes, which apparently the Russians really did cotton to, on his upper scale gun. Johann Nowotny, not the Nowotny of Suhl or Matthias Nowotny who had J. Springer as a son-in-law, had a close working relationship with the British and may have been the point of contact for the Kilby tubes. In 1945 when all the Germans were expelled and the state took over all the gunmakers, after assembling all the parts possible, strange combinations like Suhl tubes on a Johann Kalecky(Kalezky?) system as well as Purdey tubes on a Jiracek action with the Weipert stamp NPw. Also was a J. Lang(London) set of tubes on a Belgian system.
Gustav Fukert is on Silver's 6.5X52R post as well as here. To boot, Silver's Fukert was proofed/proved in Germany, maybe Suhl. It looks to be a small complicated wide world of longarms. What was the serial of your Fukert?
Kind Regards,
Raimey
rse
Last edited by ellenbr; 01/11/09 10:56 PM.
