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Last week I was buying a shotgun from an acquaintance when I saw a derelict drilling on a table. It had rusted but not pitted barrels and the barrels had been scrubbed outside with Scotchbrite or some other abrasive pad. The wood was good and it was tight The bores were nice and the rifle barrel very good. 16x16x8x57 .It was a competent gun and I took it home for a song and a whistle. Some Oxphoblue made the barrels look very nice and it will make a good "woods gun" for Florida. After I could read the barrels I discovered it was sold by Strover in Nordheim. Unlabeled JP Sauer action from 11/39. The action needs cleaning but it other than that it's a winner. Better than rusting away in a basement. This makes my second drilling from the same gun shop in Nordheim. It was still there a few years ago but as a bicycle shop.
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Ben,
Good for you,it pays to keep your eyes open and always "ask".Have you slugged it yet? With a 39 date, it could be IRS instead of IR.One of the Reviers I hunted on was next to Nordheim in nothern Bavaria( I think in Ansbach county).There are likely several Nordheims, do you know which one yours is? This might be an interesting part of the story.
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Mike, I was thinking the same thing but it says 8x57JR on the rib and 7.8/57 on the chamber. Be interesting to slug it and I'll just about bet it's bigger than .318.
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If you wish to have some images posted, forward them my way & I'll get them up.
Kind Regards,
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It is this Nordhausen in Thuringia, Thüringen, former East Germany and the name is of course Ströver: http://www.nordhausen.de/tourismus/tourismus.phpKind regards, Gunwolf
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The history of Ströver:
A. Ströver, Vor dem Vogel 14/15, um 1920.
Im Iahr 1855 siedelte der Büchsenmachermeister AdolfStröver von Heiligenstadt nach Nordhausen um und eröffnete in der Predigerstraße eine Werkstatt. Bei dem zu damaliger Zeit berühmten Büchsenmacher Morgenroth in Gernrode aufs Beste ausgebildet, stellte er Gewehre her. Aufgrund der hochwertigen Qualität war Adolf Ströver bald über
die Grenzen der Region hinaus bekannt und geschätzt. Selbst im Ausland waren seine Waffen begehrt. Als die Räume nicht mehr ausreichten, richtete er sich in der Rautenstraße 3 0 ein neues Geschäft ein.
Aber auch dort blieben seine Erweiterungsmöglichkeiten äußerst begrenzt. Der engagierte Geschäftsmann erwarb das Grundstück Vor dem Vogel 14 und baute es mehrfach um. Bereits Anfang der achtziger Iahre erkannte
er die große Zukunft des Fahrrades und gliederte der Büchsenmacherei und Waffenhandlung eine Fahrradhandlung an. Um noch mehr Platz zu gewinnen, kaufte Adolf Ströver das Grundstück Vor dem Vogel 15 dazu. Dadurch gewann er den Platz für die Errichtung eines umfangreichen Ersatzteillagers.
40 Rechnungs- und Visitenkarte der Fa. Adolf Ströver um 1920. Inzwischen hatte sein Sohn Carl, Büchsenmacher und Kaufmann vom Beruf, das Geschäft übernommen. Über Mangel an Kundschaft konnte sich der neue Inhaber nicht beklagen, denn jeder, der es sich leisten konnte, legte sich ein Fahrrad zu. In der firmeneigenen Werkstatt wurden die Reparaturen an den "Ireteseln' schnell und zuverlässig ausgeführt.
Der Bombenangriff auf Nordhausen am 4.April zerstörte die Waffen- und Fahrradhandlung Vor dem Vogel 14-15. In einem
Kellerraum im Haus Stolberger Straße 9 begann der beschwerliche Neuaufbau. 1949 übergab Carl das Unternehmen seinem Neffen Karl Ströver. Sechs Iahre später erfolgte die
Eröffnung des Geschäftes in der Stolberger Straße 9. Mechanikermeister Günter Ströver führte ab 1958 die Firma weiter. Seit 1993 ist Schwiegersohn und Werkzeugmachermeister Harry
Barthel Inhaber der
A. Ströver & Co. OHG.
Das Geschäft ist das älteste Privatunternehmen Thüringens, das durchgängig in Familienbesitz war.
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My mistake! Of course it is Nordhausen. I can't remember what I see from the gun room to the computer anymore.
Raimey, I'll try to get some decent pics of the markings for you today or tomorrow.
Thanks fellows and sorry for the mistake
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As Gilder Radner would have said-"Oh, that's very different". My hunts were still by Nordheim.
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Gunwolf,
Thanks for the family history. "Oldest family busninss in Thuringea". That is asomething to be proud of.
The underlever I have marked A. Strover is a fine drilling.
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drduc,
you are right and it's far more remarkable because there were 40 years of communism in Thuringia!!!!!!!!!!
What is also interesting is, that Ströver started with his bicycle shop early in the 1880ies!!!! He realized the possibilities of this new vehicle and made it to his second leg. This surely helped him to survive in communism!
BTW, his arms and bicycle shop was destroyed by allied bombs on April 4….
Cheers,
Gunwolf
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