Clive,
Here's a couple of Flues rifles from when he was a very young man...this Ballard type may have been his apprentice piece...the worlds foremost authority felt as though the action showed very little signs of being a built up gun (from an existing Ballard action), but rather a homemade action...



This second rifle is a Marlin lever action, that I'm assuming is a built up gun...If I remember correctly, the gun was made up for some local judge who happened to be in the same shutzen club as Emil


Both of these guns were built years before his association with Ithaca