Fukert drilling questions

[MARAT]

attach-636264126734020509.jpgattach-636264127333136421.jpgthis is the first Fukert drlling with three smooth bored barrels in 20-th gauge, what I have seen.
may somebody tell me what does mean the digits on hook of barrels?
it was made and proofed in 1908, am I right?

[MARAT]

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you may see digits on the hook of third barrel( excuse my bad English)

[MARAT]

if I right know 162.08 - means that it was 162 protocol of investigation in 1908 . And does mean 49.08??

[mike ford]

Marat,
Austrian proof marks are not my strong suit, but I think you are right about the date. I'm not sure about the 49.08, maybe Axel will answer. Don't worry about your English, it is better than my German, and I have no Russian at all.
Mike

[MARAT]

attach-636264125633056808.jpgThank you, Mike

[algmule]

Hello

Would that be a Kronen-Drilling? A Kronen-Gewehr and a Kronen-Büchsflinte I´ve seen from ads and articles but never saw a Kronen-Drilling before, if that´s what it is, of course.

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Kind regards
Peter

[CoyoteJoe]

I've never seen a hammer arrangement like that, would you call that "semi-hammerless"?

[Diz]

MARAT,

That is a most interesting action and I would like to see the gun all together from several angles. Very unusual I think. Please show us more.

Thanks, Diz

[MARAT]

attach-636264124342822863.jpgattach-636264124342822863.jpgGentlemen, I am posting all pictures what I have. It is drilling of me senior friend and I can make all pictures, which you want...

[MARAT]

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it has three triggers and one of them has "shneller". For me it is strange, because all three barrels are smooth bored....

[Axel E]

Yes, it's a Fükert "Kronendrilling" =crown drilling. You may find his 1893 German DRPatent 76253 for his semi-hammerless safety "Kronenschloss = crown lock" here:
https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNe...ge=1&xxxfull=1
His other 1893 DRP 75487 was for an ejector mechanism, similar to the Anson & Deeley type:
https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNe...ge=1&xxxfull=1
If your drilling does not have such ejectors: At that time it was a common kind of bragging to mention all the patents a gunmaker held on a gun, regardless of their use on a specific gun.
Gustav Fükert founded his "factory" in Weipert, Bohemia, about 1830. The family business existed until WW2. Weipert, a former gunmaking center, is a townb just across the German – Czech border, parted from saxonian Bärenstein just by a small bridge over a brook. Until 1945 Weipert had 12000 inhabitants, 90% German speaking. Now Weipert is Vejprty in Czechia, with less than 3000 inhabitants, 320 of them German speaking. Most of the former industrial quarters like Fükerts address at Bahnhofstrasse fell into ruins after the German population was expelled in 1945.
Your drilling visited the Weipert proofhouse two times in 1908 for unknown reasons. Maybe the customer ordered a change in chambering, needing a reproof? The other numbers are probably Fükert's serial number.

[Diz]

Axel, thanks for the additional information but I have never encountered a "semi-hammerless" action before. Can you explain the difference between a hammer and semi-hammerless action? It is a very interesting gun. Thanks, Diz

[MARAT]

This is example of semi-hammer English gunWP_20170322_08_33_01_Rich.jpg

[Axel E]

it has three triggers and one of them has "shneller". For me it is strange, because all three barrels are smooth bored....

Quite often then drillings were ordered and delivered with an additional set of such "all shot" barrels for shooting fur and feather. Some drillings even came with three barrel sets, 2 shot over 1 rifle, 2 rifle over 1 shot and 3 shot. IMHO the primary barrel set, with a rifled barrel underneath two shot barrels, was lost through the ravages of the last century. The former existence of more than one barrel sets may explain the double visit to the proofhouse.

[mike ford]

Some Brenneke Drillings had a similar arrangement for the hammers, as the Fuekert, but very different locks.
Mike