Sideplated A&D Body Action sourced from Liege. For some reason, some of Skácel's wares are devoid of proofmarks. Maybe he had some >>in the white<< components laying about & when his holdings were dispersed, someone completed the longarms?
........Sources give that he had a sordid past and life in that he either had few scruples or lacked them all together as he is noted as something of a scoundrel or rapscallion. His modus operandi was to move into a location, acquire the machinery and very qualified technicians, treat them like dirt, possibly below the law or at its very edge of the law, garner all the Benjamins he could and then he was ran out of town on a rail after being tarred & feathered. He pulled this stunt 2 or 3 times before in 1930 he landed in Pardubice, a town South of Hradci Králové......
Considering his past, I would assume puškar Josef Skácel might have either sold his wares without final proof, evaded the prooflaw with bribes or something of the like to save a few Koruna? Maybe Mr. Neuberger can add something?
Cheers,
Raimey
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