Help Identifing this German and or Austrian shotgun.
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Jim Watson
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The NPF is Austrian Ferlach smokeless proof.
Ferlach was the heart of the Austrian gun guild country and small makers there turned out a lot of guns with no brand name.
1992.38 apparently means the 1992nd gun made and proofed in Ferlach in 1938.
I don't know about all those numbers on the bottom rib. Maybe the maker's serial number and ID code are in there somewhere. Can you pick out a number in the format shown at:
http://www.shotguns.se/html/austrian_trademarks.html
Ferlach was the heart of the Austrian gun guild country and small makers there turned out a lot of guns with no brand name.
1992.38 apparently means the 1992nd gun made and proofed in Ferlach in 1938.
I don't know about all those numbers on the bottom rib. Maybe the maker's serial number and ID code are in there somewhere. Can you pick out a number in the format shown at:
http://www.shotguns.se/html/austrian_trademarks.html
mapsjanhere
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JC, according to the code it's a gun made by the Ferlach gun maker guild prior to 1945. There were a lot of independent gun smiths that mainly made a living by making parts for the "named" shops. But occasionally they got together to make full guns which were sold under the generic Ferlach guild name.
TheGuyOfSouthamerica
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Bohler Blitz Stahl are most likely the gunsmiths Name or the Name of the Company who made the gun.
It may be an small Family gun shop/builder (maybe as others said in Fehrlach Austria). It maybe as well in the case of a guild that the gunsmiths Mr. Bohler, Mr. Blitz and Mr. Stahl made the gun.
Bohler at least in german is a Family Name (surname) as well as is Blitz (means in english "ligthening"; like Blitzkrieg) and Stahl is a common german surname meaning simply "steel".
If your motherthongue is english it is easy for you to figure out what a word means in german since both languages are similar. To learn english on the other Hand you better know previously german and spanish since modern english is in a way a mix of latin (spanish. Normans spoke French and when they conquered England latin words entered the anglo saxon/old german language) and german (anglo saxon. Wessex, Sussex, Essex).
It may be an small Family gun shop/builder (maybe as others said in Fehrlach Austria). It maybe as well in the case of a guild that the gunsmiths Mr. Bohler, Mr. Blitz and Mr. Stahl made the gun.
Bohler at least in german is a Family Name (surname) as well as is Blitz (means in english "ligthening"; like Blitzkrieg) and Stahl is a common german surname meaning simply "steel".
If your motherthongue is english it is easy for you to figure out what a word means in german since both languages are similar. To learn english on the other Hand you better know previously german and spanish since modern english is in a way a mix of latin (spanish. Normans spoke French and when they conquered England latin words entered the anglo saxon/old german language) and german (anglo saxon. Wessex, Sussex, Essex).
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mapsjanhere
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Boehler was a main Austrian steel manufacturer of the time, Blitz Stahl was their brand name.
TheGuyOfSouthamerica
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If that what mapsjanhere says is true then Boehler Blitz Stahl is the Designation who made the materials of Barrel/Receiver/gun.
It tells you then only which material is used in the gun.
It is like today: on the Barrel states for example "FLLI Pietta" which means Pietta made the Barrel; and if on the Barrel you can read "stainless" then that is the Designation of the material used.
My suggestions were only guesswork open to other possibilities.
It tells you then only which material is used in the gun.
It is like today: on the Barrel states for example "FLLI Pietta" which means Pietta made the Barrel; and if on the Barrel you can read "stainless" then that is the Designation of the material used.
My suggestions were only guesswork open to other possibilities.