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I've never seen a stock so adorned on a Meffert before. Looks like there were 2 rear sling-swivel locations and unfortunately each have been removed.




https://www.holtsauctioneers.com/as...++1501+&refno=+++59085&saletype=

Meffert adorned few, very few of their offerings. This Meffert is extremely rare being Highly Adorned & with 36" tubes. And @ the auction, it appears to have an intrinsic value of Pennies.


Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse

It is a Kerner-Anson Platform w/ 1/2 Pipe Side Frame Reinforcement.



Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse

Here is same platform with little adornment- https://www.cabelas.com/p/102015546?searchTerm=Meffert

Exactly. That is a True Meffert.

>>But I like the hammergun specifically for the adornment, which is seldom, seldom seen on Meffert offerings. Meffert management was of the opinion that they could roll out 3 run of the mill offerings to 1 >>fancy one<<. By the 1930s, the concern was rolling out 1000+ per year. But these years would be the heyday years for the Meffert Compagnie and soon war and imprisonment would follow.

Initially, Immanuel Meffert founded the concern in 1839 and almost 100 years later Gerhard Meffert in 1934 joined his father Bruno in the compagnie. Meffert would be the final Meffert to >>uphold the gun-making tradition.<< In the 2nd Major Disagreement of Europe, Gerhard served in the Germany Army and was taken prisoner in 1945 in Austria by American forces. After a couple months of detainment, he was released & sent home to Suhl where he was greeted by Russian Forces, arrested and sent to multiple Russian Prison Camps. For about 5 long years he bounced around from Camp to Camp and finally was allowed to return home in 1950. Then he made a solid attempt to raise the Meffert Concern from the ashes but the effort was nationalized by the Communists. For the next 9 years he was continually harassed by the >>Stasi<< and in 1959 finally capitulated, where he & his wife took as many fotos and drawings that they could carry, told only ONE friend giving said friend the fotos & drawings and set out for Berlin where they jumped to the West Sector via the >>Luftbruecke<<, never to return again. Too, with all this bad taste in Gerhard's mouth, he was quite disconnected from the Meffert Concern & its history. Said friend forwarded the fotos and drawings some years later preserving 4 Generations of Meffert Gun Making. But Gerhard could not stay away from the gun-trade and found employment with AKAH as their shop manager. I am sure there is more to the story.....

Anyway, Bruno was more than likely @ the helm when these gems rolled off the line....<<



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Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse