Nikoloz's pics:
Was the left hand of the Kaiser that had an issue? This longarm looks to be a left handed opener. The 24 scatterguns and 32 rifles which were the hunting weapons of the Kaiser are located in the Royal Palace in Berlin and also in Palais in Potsdam. An article in the 1913 Wild und Hund was translated by GGCA's Mr. Dietrich Apel and a portion of it is in Vol. 17 at page 8. It gives that Paton u. Walsh-London made a 16 bore Lefaucheux double, 2 16 bore doubles by H. Leue & F. Timpe of Berlin, 2 12 bore scatterguns by Lancaster of London with "Woodward" steel tubes, which I guess to be Whitworth? and an 1888 vintage pair of hammergun by W. Foerster of Berlin belonging to Kaiserin Auguste Victoria are in the colleciton. The article notes that 8 pairs of 20 bores? are in the collection possibly all by W. Foerster??? A W. Foerster combo of 6.6mm over 20 bore with a 4.5X Goerz scope was used in/for the Auerhahn Balz. Examples from J.P. Sauer, Triebel of Potsdam, Timner of Koblenz, Haetge of Berlin along with others were also present. It appears that W. Foerster made a pair of selfcocking 20 bore scatterguns that the Kaiser really favored for chasing fowl and hair. He began with cartridges loaded with some British black powder but found it too powerful and switched to yellow coloured cartridges by Vereinigten Koeln-Rottweiler Pulverfabriken.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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