Ok members i got another odd one. H. Friedhoff holzmindn

[TRAKS]

A customer is coming this afternoon with a drilling he picked up. I have not seen it yet, but he did give me the name on the rib...
...... H. Friedhoff holzmindn .........
Dbl. 16 gauge with a 8.57 rifle barrel..
The serial # is 24582
customer staes that on the rifle barrel it is stamped a. Seeber
nitro marks all over... He also mentioned a "wk"

once i get the gun in hand i will take pictures and plug them in but has anyone heard of this guy?
Kurt

[Axel E]

Hermann Friedhoff in Holzminden was active as a country gunsmith from about 1930 to the early 1950s at least. As usual for German guns he merely retailed this Suhl made drilling.
The real maker seems to be August Seeber, Auf der Mauer 12, Suhl (*March 23, 1890, + November 09, 1974), opened shop in 1922. Specialized in drillings and vierlings. Son Manfred Seeber, *1928, was active until 2003, worked for the BÜHAG in GDR times.
WK is most likely the mark of the well-known Suhl barrelmaker Wilhelm Kelber, active until 1945.

[TRAKS]

Axel,

Thank you very much, I did get to see this gun since my initial post. Some case color left, but the unique item on the gun was the the top of the rear tang which some people would think was a side by side safety actually lifted and lowered the sight on the rib of the barrels. That was something I have not seen, but then again there is a library of things I have not seen.

Thanks for your help...

TRAKS

[Axel E]

That "item" is not "unique", but common to most German hammerless drillings. It is the usual barrel selector, combined with the rising rear sight. Usually, when the rear sight is down, the front trigger fires the right shot barrel, when up, the rifle barrel. the selector slide is usually marked With "S" = Schrot = shot and "K" = Kugel = ball too. The safety is the Greener type on the left side. The self-rising rear sight, linked to the barrel selector, was invented by Wilhelm Collath in 1889, btw.