Bill, I'll take you up on the breaking of bread at some point as I'd like to see the longarm in hand. Let me see if I can get Hendrik Fruehauf's attention with an email. But to my untrained eye it somewhat resembles Richard Werner who was born in Berlin in 1863 and expired in Suhl in 1940. So then I would look at just who he might have trained, which would be August Heym, August Röll and his son Paul Werner. For 1950, I still would think that the effort was sourced from some of the old talent; therefore, I would not rule out Emil Völker or his student Emil Willig. Emil Völker exhibited much of his talent on the wares of Franz Jäger. Not sure when exactly either retired but Emil had a son Claus Willig who was born in 1939, so I'm not sure he had perfected his talent by 1950. At one time he gave his email in Schweinfurt as Claus.Willig@t-online.de

I would say that more than like a brute force correlation effort may be the only choice for ID:

http://waffenmuseumsuhl.de/index.php?opt...6&Itemid=32

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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