It appears to be a Roux type combined with a Lefaucheux action seeing the forend is attached to the frame. Info on H.(Heinrich?) Roedl/Rödl of Prag(circa 1870-1881?) is somewhat elusive but it appears he was active by the late 1860s and between 1895 and surely by 1900 the firm H. Roedl Prag was the sole agent of Ludwig Loewe in Prag and peddled machinist tools and the like from there on out. Seems by the late 1880 a H. Roedl was a source for ink & supplies as well as an importer of American goods. Could there have been 2 H. Roedls in Prag circa 1900, sure but it would seem odd. In everything I've read the local community refers to H. Roedl as a gunsmith from Germany. Sometime in the latter part of the last decade of the 19th century right after H. Roedl's ejector patent #73742 a Josef Wenisch begins advertising as H. Roedl's successor. My 1st guess was that Josef Wenisch was the son-in-law of H. Rödl but haven't found anything of the like. Note H. Rödl's medals from 1873 forward to 1892.
Can we see some images of the water table/top of the frame as well as the lugs. I wonder if Schmidl was his father-in-law?
Kind Regards,
Raimey
rse
Can we see some images of the water table/top of the frame as well as the lugs. I wonder if Schmidl was his father-in-law?
Kind Regards,
Raimey
rse
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