Ah, ha - from page 15 I found the info I had forgotten:
"In 1868 Friedrich Wiebusch was listed as a silent or special partner and he expired in 1893, 2 years after August Schoverling. I'm fairly confident that Friedrich Wiebusch was founding partner in Wiebusch & Hilger(Hilger & Co. founded in 1848??) which arrived on the scene around 1876 and continued till say 1928. After Friedrich Wiebusch expired, Charles Frederick Wiebusch, William S. Hilger & M. Taussig were at the helm and were mainly blade peddlers. In 1892, about the time they were listed as the sole Sauer agents, they were in a tiff with the U.S. of A. over bowie knives, which they considered to be sidearms but the government didn't see it that way & they lost. The seem to have drug in some Belgian arms also and all appears to have left port at Antwerp."
So, I really need to sort thru the chaff and condense the clutter.
Even if SD&G were founded earlier than 1865, the War of Northern Aggression was in full swing so they could have been peddling but few would have know about it.
Recreation 1905 advert
Interesting to see the founding date of the Suhl factory.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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