Gents, I visited Jens Ziegenhahn today to wrap up some of the payment for my gun. Hope to pick it up 10 Feb! Today the metal parts were back from being hardened in an oven. I was able to see all the metal except the bottom tang. Wow is all I can say, the engraving is better than I hoped for. Full pics when I pick it up next month.
Now, if you read your Shooting Sportsman, you may recall Steven Dodd Hughes' article on the Manufrance Simplex and Ideal. When I showed the article to Jens, he says "Have you seen my Ideal?" And out comes an 1899, double trigger, ejector model Ideal, with a retractacble sling stored in the butt. Beautiful wood and very fancy engraving. Here is a crude pic I took with my point and shoot; I've never seen this "Scissor-style" double trigger look.
