TESCHNER G.
Here is a very interesting shotgun produced by the G. Teschner house in Frankfurt on the Oder.
Interesting for more than one reason since, in addition to the opening system by the horn section of the bridge that slides the guns before being able to tip them over, it also pulls the Collath n°3 cartridge with horizontal spindle percussion: it is in fact a calibre 14.
As can be seen from the attached link (in Spanish), the pin/nail is indeed in the axis, and not vertical as for a Lefaucheux cartridge.
It
appears that W. Collath invented the system in the late 1850s because, according
to the attached advertisement, the system was already known in 1858.
But there
are no patents on the subject. The internal primer was struck by a kind of nail
driven by a hammer penetrating a few millimetres into the socket. It is also
known that rifles firing the original cartridges were eventually adapted (= the
impactors were slightly shortened) in order to be able to fire “new” cartridges
that have become classic.
http://old.municion.org/lefaucheux/Collath1horizontal.htm
Note also
the safety that is activated when it is in the axis of the guns (which hinders
the aim), as shown in the link below:
forums.nitroexpress.com/printthread.php?Cat=0&Board=birdhunting&main=245837&type=thread
Here are
pictures of a newer rifle but still with the same safety behind the barrels.
Collath, W.- Frankfurt/Oder – German Hunting Guns
Another
copy of a Teschner/Collath rifle (third row, 4th rifle)
Teschner & Co Frankfurt/Oder - Model: Bock Büsch Flinte S/S (1838-75) -
Halger.dk
Here is
what we find on G. Teschner in a directory of the German industry of 1873:
G. Teschner &
Co., Gewehrfabrik
Gründer (1865): Joh.
Georg Teschner, der 1865 C.
W. Th Teschner als Geschäftstheilhaber
aufgenommen hat. Es werdes 30 Arbeiter beschäftigt.(1873 Handbook of Industry, Vol. 1 – German Hunting Guns)
According
to the Stockel, Georg Teschner was active between approx. 1838 and 1875; He died
in 1880. W. Collath (born in 1838, died in 1906) joined Teschner’s firm in 1859
(with 12 workers) and became co-worker. -owner of the company in 1870. We can
therefore say that the rifle dates from 1858 to 1870. since” he’s still at
Teschner’s name, but he’s already pulling Collath cartridges for which I haven’t
found the date of filing the patent for his horizontal spindle cartridges. But
they are already mentioned in 1858.
Similarly, I do not know whether Georg Teschner has filed a patent for his rifle
opening system via the horn part of the bridge.
GP with the help of PHL and Dirk Ziesing.
