For those who might consent willingly to be led astray on a nice and very lush side path, yet not without some connection to arms history:
After all, Karl Seifert had already before 1918 dabbled in another field, namely in passementerie.
[- Yes, that is a beautiful and today extinct word, look it up in Googgle. :-) -]
He had shared stationery with Franz Kühmayer, factory of passementeries en gros in Pozsony/Pressburg. That was one of the big players in a field which frequently was still dominated by the old "Verlagswesen" with their many house workers who delivered their home-made goods to the so-called "Fabrikant". But Kühmayer had a big modern mechanical factory, gold and silver wire extrusion machinery, and many factory workers with regular working hours. Then came World War I, the Great War, as the opposite of colourful military uniforms with passementeries, and court uniforms were no longer in new demand either, in fact demand that part of business must have completely broken down.
I see that passementerie often seems to have existed along arms making centres, just as big mail-order houses often offered arms and bicycles at the same time (in France, one and the same company often even produced both).
Now, for passementerie, the same seems to have been the case in another once famous armsmaking centre of yore, namely in
Weipert (German-settled Bohemia, then Czechoslowakia). Please, see here:
https://www.weiperter-vorfahren.de/posamenten.htmlSic transit gloria mundi?
