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Thanks everyone for all the help, Carl the pictures you requested are below. The sleeves appear to be a fine green billiard felt. The gun goes back to my friend tomorrow, it was wonderful to have it in hand for a few days.
I did find some newspaper references to Dr. Ziemer traveling to Canada to duck hunt in 1926 with a group of docs from the Lancaster area. I am in touch with the Lancaster County library. Dr. Ziemer was the county Medical Director for many years. I did locate Dr. Ziemer's granddaughter so I am hoping she can add some color to the history of this fine gun.
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03-12-2013, 08:12 AM
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Craig thank you for the pictures of the gun sleeves. Green felt is an odd material, as TPS describes the sleeve material for high grade guns as "chamois", which I take to be a fawn colored high quality cotton flannel. For lower grade guns, a coarse weave olive brown green cotton material was used. They had fold over tops with string ties ( not drawstrings). I have seen one high grade with the original chamois sleeves .
The green felt may be replacement sleeves rather than originals. Does anybody have any insight on this or have green felt sleeves been seen before?
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