Hallo,

I am owner of one double barrel shotgun – Nik Szalier&Co-Wien. S/N is 14199-2232. I need some help if you can help me. I have some information that shotgun was tested somewhere in Belgium ( marks on gun show this), mabye even it is manufactured in Belgium.
Can someone inform me – where I can got more information about gun, any historical data about that, mabye name of first owner or any other information about date and place of product. I need some mails or phone numbers of some state institutions or museums which have documentation from period of production.

PLS, send me to mail, directly!

Mr.Ljubodrag Subotic
Lajkovac, Serbia

e-mail: danko@telekom.rs

Ljubodrag:

Post in the first heading/set of threads and you will have more exposure. Hopefully Jani will be by soon and may provide some insight.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Ljubodrag:

Here is a recent thread on ole Szalier that I stumbled upon:

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbt...e=12#Post150854

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

Ljubodrag,
Szailer was one of the largest gun houses in Vienna. They also sold mail order all over Austro-Hungarian empire and published nice catalogs for this purpose. Most of their gund were of Belgian, German and Austrian origin; they also offered some US repeaters. I once owned a Szailer hammer drilling in cal. 500 Express (Short)that I found in Croatia and was told it was owned by count Draskovic and later used by Tito's partisans in the uprising of 1941. The company was established in or about 1866 and was doing well till WWI but I'm not sure what happened to it afterwards. I don't have any idea where their records might be but would start a search by writing to some institution in Vienna such as State or City Archives or maybe the Military Historical Museum (HGM). An email to Dorotheum Wien could also bring some information, they sell old Szailer guns from time to time and should know something about them. Good luck.
Pozdrav u Srbiju,
Jani

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