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The stamp of the Sole & Shoe is for Suhl.
The pattern welded tubes look to be acid etched, where you can actually feel them, then there looks to be some additional adornment. Many times this acid etched effort was faked by just turning patterns into the tubes.
I do not recognize the monogram right off.....
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Yes you can feel the etching. I have seen the fake ones, not this one and they ring better than my Krupp barrels. Lots of pitting but no dents or scratches, I may get lucky.I will send out to Dean Harris to have honed and checked out. Now that I have studied this mark does look like it could be a stylized I inside a M but I had never seen this one before obviously pre Hubertus. I can get use to looking down at this Has silver bands to match game birds, hel I could just hang it over the fireplace when not using this one and be perfectly happy. Guess it’s pre 1891 with these marks?
Last edited by Jtplumb; 05/01/24 11:02 PM.
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Well I feel silly. Got it out in sunlight and found Mr Mefferts name on top rib
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Thanks Raimey for the identification of the old Suhl stamp, Hope this “IM” mark helps someone in the future. The tarnished silver just blended in really well with the dirty laminate patterns. Do we have a date or range on the stamps?
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That pattern has a German name..... let me search....
Are you sure it is Silver/plata and not Platinum¿
So you think the Monogram is Imm. Meffert¿
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Yep
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As a sidenote, I spent the last night fighting an electronic worm that came in on some email & then infected my laptop, wireless router & HP printer. I would have never known but the HP printer would not configure after the worm destroyed the older NetGear WIFI router. I purchased a new one & everything seemed to work well but the printer just would not configure(oh the days of cables...). So I contacted HP and that let to Norton, which I have used since it began, and their software does not address. On to Metaverse & finally, finally reconfigure the HP printer. I had a lot of faith in Norton, but it failed me. Amazin' the new menacing viruses and those behind them.
So if you have any quirks from your WiFi, you might want to search for a Worm. From eating holes in Buffalo horn butplates, grips, triggerguard bows to eating you WiFi router..... Where will it all end¿¿¿
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Oh, nice catch on the IM monogram....
Early style fences & Lefaucheux style platform with what looks to be rebounding hammers. So I would use the platform and hammers to guess @ the date. I assume metal buttplate?
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Yes metal.I remember Hann’s book mentioning pre 1891 date for Suhl stamp similar to that one?
Last edited by Jtplumb; 05/02/24 09:50 AM.
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