Well, it seems to wear an odd preliminary datastring of 9.3X272.12.1, but I guess that it could suffice. That being that the rifled tube intent was for 9.3x72R and the 1st pass for the scattergun tube was 12.1mm. It also has the preliminary Ferlach stamps and for some reason it wears two 2nd pass Ferlach stamps with one being adjacent to the 1140 German date stamp. It could that this late 1912 example is one of the early examples with his name. I really don't know if he was a maker to the trade, which it seems, or he was a firearms merchant. Seems the business in Linz had some change in 1940 and it may be that post WWII that it morphed into Textil und Waffenhandel. Then due to something like receivership or the like, Schmidt & Sohn, Marco & Rudolf, of Vienna acquired the firm. Rampant speculation would be that he had a son named Martin and Martin Goluch was the tubeset knitter. Anyway, I assume it is a hammergun as there seem to be an ample number of Ferlach hammerguns with the Goluch name. Then for some reason in November of 1940 it proofed under repair at a German, or German occupied if the additional Ferlach stamp was for the 1940 effort, proof facility. One stamp this is absent in the image is the weight of the tubeset. It is highly possible that Marcus/Markus Ogris sourced Carl Goluch of Linz for this example.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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