If it had a Jones Underlever it would be a mirror image of an early Lindner Daly. Even the pin configuration is the same as it is a bar in wood type. Components of the early Lindners were purported to have been sourced from Sauer. Does it have a serial number in the 30k range? I'd be interested to see if the locks have any stamps. Any marks on the watertable? What does the forend look like? Does it have a long top tang?
I'd call "all in" or "shoot the moon" with Robert Schlegelmilch having put the initals "R.S." on the tubes. And it was probably early on say in the late 1870s well before he founded Suhler Waffenfabrik in circa 1900. Ernst Wilhelm Schelgelmilch owned several companies such as Caspar Schlegelmilch who were barrel makers and I think he owned Thieme(Adolph) & Schlegelmilch(Louis - head gunsmith at Spandau), which began in the early 1850s(1852?) and who made similar hammer doubles but the ones I've seen had a different pin configuration. Reinhold Schlegelmilch might be an option but I don't know much about his operation but Ernst Steigleder is noted as to have purchased Reinhold's business from his heirs post WWI. There were other "R.S." makers in Suhl but all like Richard Schuler were at the earliest pre-WWI.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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