Like many gunmakers to the Royal Courts, his info is sketchy at best. Info suggests he was born in 1831 in Gustrow,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCstrow , German and became a Meister circa 1862. He was a gunmaker to the Austrian Royal court or whoever came out on top in his area after the mid 1860s. With the Meister title, he had to be a whale of a gunsmith at one time but with all the examples out there he had to transform into a firearms merchant by the latter part of the 19th century sourcing parts from the cradle of German gunmaking, Suhl. I've also read info that suggest that the Eckebrecht brothers acquired the firm in 1897. And that the brothers expiring a year apart just before WWII began(maybe 1938 & 1939??). Scherping was noted in Gustrow, Mecklenbert and Hannover. Info also suggest that he expired in 1913 and I assume that there might have been a couple of generations of Scherpings. He, or his firm, looks to have peddled more than firearms as there are examples of edged weapons designed by Karl Friedrich Lippet, artist and avid hunter, with a patent in October 1936, which were sold thru Scherping.
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Raimey
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