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I hope these great guns make their way to museums that will preserve and display them. Unfortunately, for most of us, the really great stuff doesn't get seen much.
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My bet is the gun was engrave bu Joe Loy.
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I agree with Walter. 
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I've shot Daryl's Flues at traps and it was quite the nice handling gun. If I remember correctly, I did pretty good with it. Gun #2 looks fantastic.
Many many years ago when I first started looking at doubles I remember seeing at the Rochester, NY gun show a fellow who had 6 or 7 Emil Flues guns. I don't recall who that was. Maybe Walt knows. They were for sale, but I didn't know anything about them or Emil Flues. All I remember was that they were really nice looking guns.
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I am inclined to go with Loy as the engraver as well. There is nothing about it that indicates Kornbrath to me. Further I am unaware that Flues was an engraver.
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Roger, How would you characterize Loy's scroll work vis. Kornbrath?
I would say, voluptuous and somewhat mechanical, vs. lighter and more graceful?
Care to comment?
Out there doing it best I can.
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Roger, I am not positive about Flues being an engraver, even for himself. Some years ago there was a fellow on this site that had studied Flues quite a bit. He had lots of examples and history. As I remember his statement went something like, "Flues engraved some of his guns, but the better ones were engraved by Kornbrath" I am personally not positive on this point, either way. We are always falling into the trap that if one repeats something enough, it becomes more believable each time.
Last edited by Daryl Hallquist; 02/09/12 12:43 PM.
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Daryl,
I recall that fella. 'Seemed pretty knowledgeable about Flues and held him in very high regard. He had tracked his life and gun work and even had some contact with relatives as I recall. The guy was a wealth of knowledge about Flues and his patents. Shame he got sideways with a few here and either got booted or didn't care to come back.
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Here is a link to a Flues O/U with Kornbrath engraving. http://www.antiquesandguns.com/flues.htmlThis is "typical" Kornbrath style, and quite different from the SBT. I think the Loy attribution for the SBT engraving is right on!
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Does anyone know how long Loy engraved ?
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