Many thanks for furhmann for wadding thru an 1864 advert by Karl Stiegele, Junior noting that he now had the reins of the company but his father will offer support, when and if needed. His effort was to instill confidence in his clients that they could expect to expect the same service and products. Said service would include the repair of old sporting weapons in particular the conversion of muzzle-loaders to his designed breech-loader. He notes that their warehouse was lush with components such as barrels, locks & stocks as well as offering cartridges, shells & wads for the then new Lefaucheux breech-loader to the desire of the client. Then he gets to the crux of the matter which was his bullet design and fabrikation. He had designed a bullet press for making swaged bullets, specifically his very accurate pointed bullets, which had an identification number between 1 & 100, making the re-order of bullets easy. For the hunt clubs, he would offer samples and I think we should more closely examine these clubs as like our golf courses today, deals were proposed and secured here. It states that the bullets were a value and if one had a large enough order, he would build you a custom mold.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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