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I have just read some posts by Raimey E. where Herr Steigele Sr. and Jr. are written as Karl. In one blurry scan of a news article the name appears to be spelled as Karl but in another as Carl.

I have just purchased a drilling marked on the rib "C. Stiegele M�nchen" in gold inlay. At this point the best I can tell the drilling was made between 1891 and 1910. Were there two different Stiegele firms that were located in Munich or is it just a matter of two ways of spelling the same thing.

As a side note, my father was named Carl by his Alsatian French father but my German grandmother wanted my dad's name to be spelled Karl.

Thanks,
Roger

Same person or persons. For some reason there was a non binding transition from the German K to C that seems to have occurred between 1900 & WWI. After WWI it seems that it was set in stone. Take K�ln, C�ln, Cologne for example. And it may be that the use of the C preceded the substitution of K being somewhat cyclic in nature?

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Thanks Raimey. Since my dad was born in 1898 it explains the confusion over the spelling of his name and the variations with Stiegele's name.

The company was in existence near the main railway station around 2000 as I was in there looking at a Blaser single shot rifle, if they are still there I am unsure.
I use the station most weeks so if needs must I could google & ask them for any info they have but Munich was 45% destroyed in the war so they may have lost the records.
Martin

Stiegele Jagd
Hesstrasse 50
80798 M�nchen

mail@stiegele-jagd.de

www.stiegele-jagd.de

When I visited the Stiegele booth at the 2011 IWA show it seemed that they were then only an auction house. Reading their website (using Google translate) I gather they now also sell guns and may have left the auction business.

Most of the guns for sale on their site seemed to be "beaters" and hardly the quality of the guns retailed under the Stiegele name in the past.

It seems like all of the pre WWII Stiegele marked guns that I have encountered over the years have been of very high quality. I don't ever remember seeing a medium to low quality gun wearing the Stiegele name. Thus I tend to automatically associate the name Stiegele with best quality guns. I would like to read the views of others on this forum regarding their image of the Stiegele name.

Danke,
Roger