Images of the flats will give the year but the sporting weapon is a post WWII sourced from the craftsmen at Suhl. Simson, like may of the pre-WWII makers, was just a shell or used as a tradename with BüHag being one of the concerns. In the 1930s the Nazis took control of the Simson facility. The double has overhanging scears, has side cocking indicators and wears the outstanding quality stamp. The tubes are of the Russian 4 Ring IZH 50A steel. Paul Jaeger was related to the Suhl Jaegers, which were business partners with Simson and possibly related. Paul Jaeger arrived in the U.S. of A. in 1929 and I believe he was born in the U.S. of A. But I don't know when his brother Kurt Jaeger arrived. Their father, Franz Jaeger had a business here and filed gun related patents around the turn of the 20th Century. Franz Jaeger met his wife in NY City was the grandfather of Mr. Dietrich Apel, who has made a huge contribution/effort to the knowledge of German sporting weapons here in the U.S. of A. I am curious how Paul Jaeger, who was purely a firearms merchant in this case, sourced the longarm. Maybe it passed thru Zurich in travelling to the U.S. of A. Email me an image of the flats and I'll post it for you.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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