Greetings.
A Thieme & Schlegelmilch 16/70 hammerless double followed me home. I know this firm is mostly known for their Nimrod lockup system, Drielings (and the occassional rifle), but this double has what appears to be Damascus barrels and yet there are NO Nitro proofmarks that I can find.
On the watertable, it has their names, a stylized T-thru-S (obviously their corporate mark), patent information and a Crown-over-V.
This Crown-over-V can also be found on barrel flat, with the right barrel under side having '644 R L' and the left side '644 L'. If "any German gun or Rifle carrying a crown-over-V dates to 1891 or earlier" (http://www.germanguns.com/technical.html)
and 329 is the last three digits of the serial number, am I correct in surmising that this '644'is NOT a June 1944 inspection date but the bore diameters? There's no Waffenampts or such.
If it is a blackpowder-only weapon, it's in amazing shape: locks up like a bank vault and there's only some mild speckling in the bores.
Last edited by Story; 12/16/07 10:21 AM.
