fuhrmann:
Your reference to Frantisek Novak/Nowak of Praze is most interesting. He too looks to have been a supplier to the Habsburg court also and supplied the family of Schwarzenberk. He like the others mentioned was an upper rung mechanic. Sources give he was born in 1784 but was a master gunsmith in Praze/Praha from 1821 forward to 1857 being the President/chairman(1st?) of the Praha gunsmith's guild from 1835 to 1838 and then again from 1844 to 1848. He should have attained his master gunsmith sheepskin circa 1808. Like Kirner he holds medals from the 1829, 1831 & 1836 Exhibitions in Praha. He like Johann Baptiste Missillieur, 1781 - 1835 who moved to Praha in 1834 after attaining the rank of master in Wien in 1821, came a bit later in their career to Praze/Praha and may have transferred technology. Johann Baptiste Missilieur held at least one patent, with some of his wares stamped with Millisieur a Vienna Patent.




Frantisek Novak
http://www.papilio.cz/en/archiv.php?aukc...07114cf9b9e563e

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse