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LOL, Brian, do you ever see a gun you don't buy? Hahaha.
Looks interesting. Will be following this.
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LOL, Brian, do you ever see a gun you don't buy? Hahaha.
Looks interesting. Will be following this. Nah. I got rid of a bunch of guns so I gotta replace some of them!
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Reheinische Metallwaren und Maschinenfabrik / Rheinmetall-Borsig was founded by Heinrich Ehrhardt in 1899 and that was in Düsseldorf.
A similar concern was founded in Sömmerda in 1901, which was a specialist for tubes and probably the source for the Rheimetall trademarked tubes.
Is there a worn mark near the script L on the lower rib? I have seen a similar script L on many of Sauer's offerings. More than likely a Langenhan mechanic.
It passed thru the Zella - Mehlis proof facility in September of 1921 being Nr. 535 for the month of September.
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So it's older than I thought. I can't really make out other marks but I included another pic of the bottom of the barrels. What is EHRHARDT LAUF?
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Heinrich Ehrhardt had a vessel type patent where he like Whitworth made tubes. All the tube with the encircled square were made by this technique. I think they supplied a lot of tubes to the German War Machine.
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Looks to be a very nice A&D Body Action platform. Anything on the buttplate?
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Nothing on the buttplate.
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>>Heinrich August Theodor Ehrhardt was born in 1840 to simple beginnings, and retired & expired(1928), in Zella Saint Blasii where in 1866 he founded his first firm which faltered. It was then that he moved to Düsseldorf where he founded the Rhinish Metal Works Rheinmetall and made many wares including corkscrews. He real 1st success was a new technique of bullet making where he fabricated 8x57I steel jacked bullets for the M88. He then went on to bigger and better bullets, and tubes, for artillery pieces in the last decade of the 19th Century. It was then that he developed his tube making process and it has been pointed out to me that the square bolt/rod in the round hole, which can be seen in the diagram between the signatures in the signature block, became his trademark. Page 5 beside "a" & "b": http://www.google.com/patents?id=S2x2AAA...;q=&f=false << US495245A https://patents.google.com/patent/US495245https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubb...true#Post184388This example is stamped Rheinmetall Abteilung Sömmerda. Cheers, Raimey rse
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>>In 1840, Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse invented the needle gun and a firearms factory was founded in the town. In 1919 the Rheinmetall company took over the factory, later called Rheinmetall-Borsig, at first to produce automotive parts. Initially it concentrated with only little success on carburettors, then in 1925 an ambitious new manager, the engineer Fritz Faudi, took over and a new type of cardan joint was developed, which became extremely popular. The Rheinmetall-Faudi system was a well-known name, and the Sömmerda works were the largest producer in Germany.
In April 1921 the factory returned to arms production, going against the post-war regulations which banned it from producing fuses. From October 1922 the factory produced the total quantity of fuses allowed in Germany by the Allies and also began producing the new MG30 machine gun under the direction of Louis Schmeisser.<<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6mmerda - copy & paste
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