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Thank you very much!

The tubes were sourced from the Schilling forge, more than likely utilizing rough bored tubes from Belgium. Looks like a mechanic with the initials >>PW<< was the tubeset knitter. With the Doll's Head Extension, it may have been made prior to 1900??


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Raimey
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Thank you! Very interesting gun indeed, Do you think it could be old gun without original proof facility marks (like pre 1892?) I think if they used just old parts in 1953,they would mark it differently - Like 9,3x72r norm and with nitro proof?Its very confusing. Is it possible to recognice date/era it was made by that sign E.D.Kettner? Or by the style of the roux system, engraving, shape of the action?
Do you know what kind of rifling is it? I got 9,3x72r drilling from 1906 (by the časť is more likely 9,3x72r D) with 8,91mm/9,30-9,33mm dia. with very rare roux style treff lever but different shape action and it has different type of rifling.





Its marked 118.35, 10.06-date,739-th gun through Z-M, AK-auctioner, LK-tubeset knitter?

The rifle was made after the proof law of 1891 came into effect Mar 1893, as evidenced by the proof marks on it. It was made before the improvements to the 1891 law came into effect in 1912, as evidenced by the bore diameter being expressed in gauge measurement(118/35). It was likely proofed in Suhl and they didn't start dating the proofs until the mid 1920s, therefore date of initial proof is unknown, but would be between 1893 and 1912. I could not magnify the re-proof marks enough to read the letters inside the eagles ( Bundesadlers), so I can't make out the type of re-proofs.
Mike

Thank you Mike, have a look at these please

9372,
Now that I can actually see the marks, I don't believe they are FRG marks at all. They seem to be DDR (East German) marks, which confuses things in my mind ( some may say I am always confused).
The Eagle next to the G is the mark for rifles. The Eagle by itself is the mark for definitive proof. Each barrel carries these marks. Do you happen to know if the person that brought it to the USA was stationed in West Berlin? Immediately after the war, the "wall" had not been built and American servicemen were able to travel to the East Zone much easier than later. Also, I didn't see the Ulm house mark in the new photos and had just accepted the statement it had been re-proofed there. The ULM house mark is a stag's antler, do you see this mark?
Mike

Mike, the gun is in Europe in Slovakia.
Martin

9372,
I see the Ulm house mark now. The gun sure is "well traveled".
Mike