New gunmakers names to add to our list

[holzwurm]

The museum in Switzerland has become a font of information I'd like to share. Not only does the conservtrix live in the same town from which Le Corbusier came - which is a short commute from Le Locle - she has come up with the names of several other gun makers living and working in the Neuchâte mountians area,  which I will list here - hoping one may ring a bell with someone. I don't know if further info exists but if you're interested in any one perhaps the info can be had???

Chammel, Paul Edouard, born in 1825, from Prussia, gunsmith

Naguel, Isidore Joseph, born in 1825, from Prussia, gunsmith

Rychner, Henri, born in 1824, from Argovie (Switzerland), armurier

Kuster, Ulrich, born in 1827, from Saint-Gall (Switzerland), worker gunsmith

Sutermeister, Fred Moïse, born in 1815, from Argovie, worker gunsmith

Fessler, Justin François Adolphe, born in 1825, from Schwytz (Switzerland), worker gunsmith

[jwh1947]

No complaint here, but if we are going to expand to Jaegers (which I wouldn't object to, personally) we better add a new category.  We could fill pages with remarkable names and photos from what is now Gemany, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Switzerland, etc.   Lots of well-made ones survived because they were cared for.  Pound for pound, for the execution of high art, most who have studied them would say that they are in a class of their own.

 You should see the one they have upstairs in the Smithsonian..owned and used by Catherine the Great.  A classy jewel with a padded cheekpiece.  Sadly, lots of their good stuff is not on display. Social issues stressed today; technology, especially guns, not deemed cool.

[Eric Kettenburg]

Fessler is a very interesting name.  At some point will see something come of that (probably with a southern spin I'm sure), although the guy you mention is too late.