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Look like a 1897 Proof Date?? I have seen as early as 1901/1902 from Zella-Mehlis but I don't know that I have seen a longarm dated prior to that???


Service Load data with British Schultze Powder-Voluntary Proof









J.J. Reeb Monogram

Interesting Wilhelm Robert Eblen Bitz Action double sourced from JJ Reeb and looks to have a date of 1897??

Wilhelm Robert Eblen hung out his gunmaking shingle in 1895 in Stuttgart(Germany not Arkansas) and I assume his Bad Cannstadt satellite office had a similar opening date??

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1140204247


Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse

The last (indirect) scion of the family - bearing another name - is still in the trade, and recently even returned to Stuttgart. Now employed with Frankonia Jagd there.

Great info there 7,35mm Carcano, but can you add some details¿

Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse

2,5 Grammes of British Schultze powder &
28,3 Grammes of Lead Shot.

Now the German Proof Law of 1891 was rushed to get out the door and to get pushed thru the Reichstag. for the most part being copies of the British Scales of 1887 but in metric weights and dimensions; therefore, it did not account for the new fangled, and ever changing, smokeless/sem-smokeless powders. Belgian & British proof laws considered the smokeless powder and German settled on the British Schultze because it was slower burning than the violent German Gelatinized Powders. Many German Ballisticians swore off the British Schultze powder referring to it as irregular with high pressures and heavy recoil. So the Frankfurt on the Oder Proof Facility in its infinite wisdom adopted the Troisdorfer and that's where the >>Tr.<< and >>Crown over F<< got its opportunity to shine. The other German Proof Facilities held with ole Irregular Schultze & pressed on, as we have it here.


Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
rse