It may be that Richard Schüler was sourced for some Dalys post WWI but an 1935 article in celebration of the 100 year mark for the history of Gewehrfabrik August Schüler seems a bit larger than like and may have been more or self lauding and advertising than anything else touting their vast machine shop. August Schüler was founded by Friedrich Schüler in 1835 with his younger brother August Schüler taking the reins in 1850. I guess that the name August may have been their grandfather's name, possibly father's name. August Schüler, CEO in 1850, had 2 sons Friedrich and Oskar Schüler both worked in the family business until 1913 when apparently there was some bad blood with a departure by Oskar Schüler. Friedrich Schüler had a son who was named Richard and it is he who had sourcing ties to Daly and it may have been thru a fella by the name of Robert Fahner. He joined a firm in 1928 and I guess it to have been the August Schüler firm. A cat named Frederick W. Hollender of New York( http://books.google.com/books?id=x2jZAAA...p;q&f=false ? - right side 7th from bottom ) seems to have been pen pals with Richard Schüler in the early 1930s. Hollender was the owner of some firm but I can't say he was attached to Charles Daly, which post WWI was owned by Henry Modell(I assume he was the son of Morris Modell): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modell's (copy & paste). Now I know that some of you aren't fond of Wikipedia but it is a location to start. Henry Modell sold the Charles Daly name/business to Sloan's Sporting Goods of 88 Chambers Street, NY. Like a cat, curiousity has just about got the best of me and I may just order the 1930s Sloan's gun catalogue at "Sporting Collectables": http://www.sportingcollectibles.com/MNOphotos/m32200sloans1930scat.jpg . In early 1930s correspondence between Richard Schüler and businessman Fredrik W. Hollender Hollender notes that "Daly Inc. Alias Sloans Sporting Goods co. 88 Chambre St, aus?" which I think means that by 1930 Daly was also known as Sloan's Sporting Goods at least by the 1930s. So it may be that Schüler was sourced from post WWI to the mid to late 1920s and then it may be that Sloan's Sporting Goods/aka Charles Daly continued with their sourcing lines which would have been to Gebrüder Adamy, with the examples slated for the U.S. of A. passing under the ever watchful eye of either Albert or Franz Adamy. Wilhelm Heym was also in New York in the early 1930s peddling 12 very nice example he brought with him in late 1931. I think this was an effort to establish sourcing lines and it may be that during this trip he courted G&H? So it appears the peddling on this side of the pond was as complex as the manufacture of weapons in the Suhl and Zella-Mehlis region.

Richard Schüler & Robert Schlegelmilch of course have the same initials and I think Robert Schlegelmilch, or the firm Robert Schlegelmilch, to have been active up to circa 1924.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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