Some other outliers are the unadorned E.C. Schmidt's examples 1424 & 1522 that have additions that seem to suggest completion post 1900. Maybe they laid about for a time. But I contend that Daly had control of the serial number sequence or @ least set the groundwork. E.C. Schmidt Nr. 1424 wears the initials E.C. on each side of the water table & on one of the tubes & I'd hazard a guess it notes effort by an E. Schilling or Ernst Schilling. Schmidt might have added some effort but I'm doubtful unless additional examples post WWI surface w/ the same E.S. initial stamp.

E.C. Schmidt underwent his apprentice study in Suhl and then immigrated to the U.S. of A. and picked up the pieces of the William R. Schaefer shop.

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Cheers,

Raimey
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