Sources give that Georg Ludwig Rasch was born in Braunschweig in 1792 and drew his last breath in this world as a gunmaker sometime in 1867. Using the age of 24 years as the approximate age for completing the gunmaker’s walkabout and paying for his(her?) master gunsmith sheepskin, Georg Ludwig Rasch would have been a master gunsmith in 1816 and I guess him to have been a supplier to a duke’s court about the time percussion firearms entered on the scene. Which duke’s court, I can’t say for now. I’ve seen info that indicated Georg Ludwig Rasch was also an engraver. But the majority of the appointments as suppliers to the royal courts also began about percussion era and for now I think very few hofbuchmachers lived into the 20th century. Heinrich Leue could be one of the very last. But I’ve seen Rasch pinfire examples on the Lefaucheux action and I expect he made percussion doubles sourcing tubes and guns “in the white” from Birmingham and a few examples are noted as having Westley Richard tubes? Probably just after his death G.L. Rasch sourced doubles from the craftsmen in Belgium and Suhl as I’ve seen Sauer marks on G.L. Rasch retailed hammer doubles. In the late 1800s there is an Otto Rasch listed as a gunmaker having a repair facility. I can’t say if this is how G.L. Rasch sourced his components or longarms or even if G.L. Rasch and Otto Rasch were related.
Gunder:
Could you post a few pics of the flats or post any marks or initials on the tubes ahead of the flats?
Jeff G.:
Yes, your's is a Teschner-Collath type and I would be it passed thru the Frankfurt/Oder proofhouse, if any. Any marks on the flats or ahead of the flats?
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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