Looks like ole Louis Lepper inherited the business of Edmund Hügel of Apolda, Germany in 1911, or that was when Lepper hung out his Gunmaking Shingle. I have no idea where that might be, but it must be close to Zella-Mehlis. There are some reference to Louis Lepper being in Z-M, but this gun looks to be all Suhl. Lepper was a very common name in Z-M.


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