Help with proof marks - Buchel Schuetzen - Aydt Action - Safety Interlock button

[buckstix]

Help with proof marks - Buchel Schuetzen - Aydt Action - Safety Interlock button

Hello All,

I recently purchased this Schuetzen rifle and would like help
determining the proof marks and letter above and below the
images.

BUCHEL-000.jpg

BUCHEL-0000.jpg



BUCHEL-00.jpg

[algmule]

172,28 = .300-.309 (according to the GGCA main web site)
12[.]09 = December 1909
806 = 806th gun proofed in December (1909)

I have nothing on the letters and the crown S

EDIT: Beschussanstalt Zella St. Blasii/Mehlis (Zella-Mehlis)

Peter

[Axel E]

GESL: GESCH. = gesetzlich geschuetzt = (design or inlay) protected by law, (copyright !)

[mike ford]

Axel,
Copyrighted images are pretty uncommon on the guns we are interested in so they are not likely to be images of "generic" personalities. Do they represent some historical figures, or maybe identify some particular company or organization?
Mike

[Axel E]

Mike, look close. These two decorations are no hand engravings, but simply machine made, coined or pressed metal plates serving as cheap decorations on Schuetzen rifles. Such plates were often inletted into recesses milled into the flat sides of receivers or merely soldered or glued on. A bit of line engraving surrounding them made a rifle look quite impressive, like this one. Until a few years ago there was a shop in Rothenburg o.T. offering such and other, like game animals and birds, for the same purpose. The 1908 Akah catalog offered even pressed wood “Schuetzen stock carvings” for inletting and gluing into rifle buttstocks. Such fake engravings and carvings were quite popular pre-WW1. As they were mass produced more or less, I was quite worthwhile for the inventor to have his generic pictures or even his way to attaching protected by copyright or DRGM.

[mike ford]

Axel,
Thanks a lot. There used to be an interesting gunsmith in Rothenburg/ Tauber also.
Mike

[yamoon]

Looks more like a Buchel Meister. Has the reversed forward trigger.
Mike

[Axel E]

Looks more like a Buchel Meister. Has the reversed forward trigger.
Mike

The description calls it a "Buechel Meister", not an "Aydt action".

[Axel E]

Axel,
Thanks a lot. There used to be an interesting gunsmith in Rothenburg/ Tauber also.
Mike

Most likely the same shop, Rothenburger Waffeneck, see Rothenburger Waffeneck von Rothenburger Waffeneck J?rgen Hense... (vdb-waffen.de)

[mike ford]

Axel,
That is the same shop, it has been 50 years since I was there. I'm happy they are still in business, maybe a son or grandson.
Mike