Thanks a bunch for the reply, ellenbr.
I would guess it was made in Suhl by Imman. Meffert between 1910 & 1914, although it could be a bit later but I would think the round to have been normalized by WWI.
Cool. I have a link to someone else who had a Hubertus marked Drilling. In that thread, a gentleman said these guns weren't marked "Nitro" until after 1912. Is that possible?
Hubertus Drilling Other markings on my gun include a name on the rib- I think it says O Kennewitz Kaiserslautern ?
It's also marked Ehrhardt * Lauf on the shotgun barrels:
I don't think the pre-rifling bore diameter to be 9mm but rather 8,9mm and the 8 was worked off as were some portions of other marks. I do not see a Nitro stamp for the solid projectile tube but do for the scattergun tubes. ...Any marks near the forend hanger? What's the serial number range?
Ahhh... So, in other words, the blank tube/barrel was marked with the pre-rifling diameter, and then after it was rifled & chambered a new stamp was added?
Here's another look at the markings on the rifle tube-
I don't really see anything else that looks like a proof mark- just the crown over U, crown over G, and that other thingy, but there is a tiny EA stamped by the forend latch, and there's just a letter R stamped on the other side. I think that tiny EA is also stamped just over the 9mm marking. I can't detect any evidence there was ever anything else stamped in front of the 9mm marking... Is it possible that the shotgun tubes are nitro proofed, but I have to use black powder loads for the rifle? Does the new info above help narrow down the date it was made?
Serial number is 44779. At least, I think that's the serial number; it's marked in several different places on the gun.
