Thanks for the effort fellas. Ah, let's limit the time frame from the time of the introduction of the proof laws, or new fangled steel development, to say WWI. After that the Americans were rolling their own. I'd say it is going to come down to the common threads with a few being the mass production/mechanization, the Germans and LLH. The Belgians had embraced mechanization early on and were experts. The Germans took note and decided that with supervision, that the Belgians could make a stab the production numbers they needed. Now I realize that I'm mixing apples and oranges(military & sporting) but sporting arms components were beneficiaries of advances in miltiary weapons and their production processes. Last the LLH stamp is just too frequent on sporting arms tubes for him not to have been an exporter.
Anyone think LLH & Louis Muller were related:
http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20belge/artisans%20identifies%20m/a%20muller%20gb.htm ????? Somehow they had to be connected.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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