Andrew, Nice gun and fabulous maker. I am a Fanzoj owner, but not an expert by any means. My understanding about the firm is that they produced high quality, but typical, German/Austrian guns from their founding until approximately 2000 when they transformed into a lower-volume niche and art-gun manufacturer of exceptional quality. I found this on their excellent website:
After a short period of stagnation in 1945, demand for hunting weapons set in again. In the peak years from 1965 to 1980, Fanzoj produces up to 200 weapons per year. The crisis of the U.S. dollar in the 1980’s, as well as the growing international competition who increasingly move into serial mass production of their weapons, push Ferlach into a slump. In 1946 there are still 56 gunsmith companies in Ferlach, but the numbers drop continuously. Today, only a handful of highly specialized family-firms continue to build hand-crafted hunting weapons in Ferlach. During those difficult times Johann Fanzoj, Senior Manager, succeeds in expanding the company to world-wide recognition and opens new areas of business and trade. An avid hunter and world traveller himself, Johann Fanzoj sen. is the first Ferlach gunsmith to go on a safari to Africa in 1969 – and initiates the era of large caliber double rifles in Ferlach; highly esteemed working tools among professional hunters in Africa. His good relations to high-profile personalities such as Marshall Tito (the legendary post-War leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) leads to Fanzoj hunting weapons becoming treasured gifts presented by and to heads of state.
Interesting discussion about the "21.30" I wonder if this is the serial number. My Fanzoj rifle of recent manufacture has "21.2XXX" engraved on the tang which I took to be the serial number.
