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Schutzenbob
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This is the article itself, however there are a number of typos in it;
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Thanks guys, I'll search those. Wish they digitized all newspapers from old days.
"some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence
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This is a Stevens #51 22 Short that was said to have belonged to Michael Dorrler, from Julia Auctions;
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The OP's pics show a very rough turned barrel. I had an H M Pope .22 Ballard with the same "finish". It had the standard Pope marking and codes, so he must have done the "matting". It would be interesting to know how or if this rifle's barrel was marked.
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Michael was a top competitor and always in the hunt at big matches. I belive that that rifle was given as a price the year before Ittle won his famous prize rifle. Stevens was permuting their "new" 44 1/2 action and this was a way to get them in the hands of top shooters.
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Shame they spelled his name wrong. Rifle says “Dorrler” not “Dorrier”. Beautiful job otherwise.
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Only an engraver would notice the misspelling, but done it stamping and crude engraving.
Real easy to make a mistake. Hard to erase.
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Yes, some stamps were used; but in my limited-experience, the design and execution of the Dorrier rifle's engraving is very good for Stevens' work. After all, it's not like they routinely hired the Ulrich boys.
Also, I'd bet this isn't the first time an "l" and an "i" were confused, especially if interpreted from imprecise handwriting. Do you think Mr. Dorrier was so incensed that he refused the rifle?
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Over several years while researching original sources for my book
The Golden Age of the American Schuetzenfest
I came across numerous references, including a couple of photos of
Michael Dorrler
. He was known nationally as an excellent shooter and tough competitor. Never did I encounter reference to him spelled
Dorrier
. Perhaps my sample size was too small or both were names of famous shooters?
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Yikes! Thanks to Randy, another bit of esoteric research coming up. I'm on it!
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That didn't take long. Both the 1903
Los Angeles Herald
article and the write-up for the Julia ca6talog above spell the name Dorr
L
er. Pass the crow, somebody.
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The rifle has a replaced barrel. It obviously came with a Stevens or Stevens Pope barrel but it now has a Jersey City Pope barrel. It has been blued but it was just turned and never polished when Pope fitted it to this action.
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So the present barrel is like the (in)famous # 150 that was on Pope's own high-wall. We can only hope it shoots as well.
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