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ballardhepburnmich ASSRA Board Member Offline Posts: 598 Location: Scotts,mi. Joined: May 20^th, 2015	A.O. Zichang Jun 11^th, 2018 at 10:45am	Print Post
	I would like to find out any information about the work of A. O. Zichang Thank you, Lee Gibbs


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Old-Win Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1667 Location: Minnesota Joined: Nov 24^th, 2005	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #1 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 11:32am	Print Post
	Do a search for Zischang with an "s". Use the all posts link and quite a bit will come up.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16012 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #2 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 11:59am	Print Post
	Try this also: (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)

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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2041 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #3 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 12:02pm	Print Post
	A. O. Zischang, Syracuse New York. A picture is worth a thousand words;
	« Last Edit: Jun 11^th, 2018 at 12:09pm by Schutzenbob »

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oodmoff Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 276 Location: colorado springs Joined: Jan 12^th, 2009	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #4 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 12:34pm	Print Post
	Not trying to hijack the thread but I picked up an interesting correspondence letter this year at the CGCA show that was in a stack of old documents and catalogs on one venders table. It was a standard form response letter produced by Stevens that was sent back to the customer from some time in the later part of 1920. The inquiry was about reboring or rebarreling an obsolete rifle. At the bottom of the form letter was a hand written section which stated something to the effect of..."At this time we no longer rebore or rebarrel rifles, shotguns or pistols. Please refer to A.O. Zischang (street address) Syracuse New York. To me it was a cool piece of history 1 due to the fact that stevens would refer them to him over other makers and that it verified that as of 1920, Stevens was no longer doing that type of work. Just an interesting side note...
	« Last Edit: Jun 11^th, 2018 at 4:12pm by oodmoff »

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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2041 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #5 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 1:07pm	Print Post
	Zischang's business card;


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 16012 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #6 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 1:19pm	Print Post
	oodmoff wrote on Jun 11^th, 2018 at 12:34pm: Not trying to hijack the thread but I picked up an interesting correspondence letter this year at the CGCA show that was in a stack of old documents and catalogs on one venders table. It was a standard form response letter produced by them that was sent back to the customer from some time in the later part of 1920. The inquiry was about reboring or rebarreling an obsolete rifle. At the bottom of the form letter was a hand written section which stated something to the effect of..."At this time we no longer rebore or rebarrel rifles, shotguns or pistols. Please refer to A.O. Zischang (street address) Syracuse New York. To me it was a cool piece of history 1 due to the fact that stevens would refer them to him over other makers and that it verified that as of 1920, Stevens was no longer doing that type of work. Just an interesting side note... Speaks highly of Zischang's work that Stevens would refer to him too!

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Schuetzenmiester Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 6707 Location: Cool Wet Side of WA Joined: Apr 27^th, 2008	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #7 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 3:14pm	Print Post
	What does "Old telephone" on his card mean?

	"some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence
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Jeff_Schultz ASSRA Board Member Offline Posts: 1600 Location: Ransomville, NY Joined: Apr 25^th, 2004	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #8 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 4:50pm	Print Post
	I would guess, you just ring up the operator and ask her to ring up A.O. Zischang.

	"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo “There is no situation so bad that it cannot be made worse." Confidence- The feeling you get before you fully understand the situation.
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Bill Lawrence Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1037 Joined: Mar 17^th, 2014	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #9 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 6:02pm	Print Post
	My mother's brother's family lived in Wakarusa, Indiana, an Amish-centered town that still hand a crank-phone system, one of the country's last, in the early 1960s; what Mr. Schultz guesses is exactly what you did. And if I remember correctly, The Andy Griffith Show suggested that operator-controlled systems hung on even longer, at least in some small Southern towns. I wonder if such systems still exist anywhere today? Bill Lawrence


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Jeff_Schultz ASSRA Board Member Offline Posts: 1600 Location: Ransomville, NY Joined: Apr 25^th, 2004	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #10 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 6:11pm	Print Post
	I wonder if such systems still exist anywhere today? Probably gone the way of the dirt floor bar.

	"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo “There is no situation so bad that it cannot be made worse." Confidence- The feeling you get before you fully understand the situation.
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JLouis Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 10625 Joined: Apr 8^th, 2009	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #11 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 6:13pm	Print Post
	And then there were the party lines when growing up, you could listen to others conversations or kindly ask them to hang up so you could use the phone. Listening to others was always interesting and even more so if you knew those on the other end of which most did. My cousin hooked up a recorder that did not require the receiver to be picked up so no one had a clue when they were being listened to. Some of those folks had some pretty interesting personal secrets they were unknowingly sharing to say the least. JLouis

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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #12 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 7:06pm	Print Post
	Jeff_Schultz wrote on Jun 11^th, 2018 at 4:50pm: I would guess, you just ring up the operator and ask her to ring up A.O. Zischang. In a city the size of Syracuse? Seems doubtful to me, though I have no idea of the meaning. Possibly the card went to the printer incomplete.


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Redsetter Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 3468 Location: New York Joined: Aug 6^th, 2013	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #13 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 7:11pm	Print Post
	JLouis wrote on Jun 11^th, 2018 at 6:13pm: My cousin hooked up a recorder that did not require the receiver to be picked up so no one had a clue when they were being listened to. Some of those folks had some pretty interesting personal secrets they were unknowingly sharing to say the least. JLouis Living in a backwoods area, once had to put up with a party line for several years--bitterly hated it, even without an eavesdropper.


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Jeff_Schultz ASSRA Board Member Offline Posts: 1600 Location: Ransomville, NY Joined: Apr 25^th, 2004	Re: A.O. Zichang Reply #14 - Jun 11^th, 2018 at 7:34pm	Print Post
	Redsetter wrote on Jun 11^th, 2018 at 7:06pm: Jeff_Schultz wrote on Jun 11^th, 2018 at 4:50pm: I would guess, you just ring up the operator and ask her to ring up A.O. Zischang. In a city the size of Syracuse? Seems doubtful to me, though I have no idea of the meaning. Possibly the card went to the printer incomplete. It may seem doubtful to you, but it seems entirely plausible to me in 1920.

	"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo “There is no situation so bad that it cannot be made worse." Confidence- The feeling you get before you fully understand the situation.
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