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WAFFENFABRIK STEYR MARKED HEBEL DATED 1911
Posted: Thu 15 May 2014, 19:11
by signalman
i just received this Hebel with manufactures mark of WAFFENFABRIK STEYR, and dated 1911 !
Does anybody have a similar example, or one that is dated earlier than 1911.
There is a 3 digit number under the barrel, but NO external number on the frame.
Re: WAFFENFABRIK STEYR MARKED HEBEL DATED 1911
Posted: Fri 16 May 2014, 06:43
by bergler
Wow, what a nice example! I have a Waffenfabrik Steyr with no date, and this one should be around 1903 -05. There was a small numer of hebels made in Steyr before the production gegan in Vienna (WHF or AZF). Could you show pics of the whole gun?
Re: WAFFENFABRIK STEYR MARKED HEBEL DATED 1911
Posted: Fri 16 May 2014, 06:51
by signalman
Hello, I will as soon as I can.
Please show photo's of your example.
Re: WAFFENFABRIK STEYR MARKED HEBEL DATED 1911
Posted: Tue 27 May 2014, 19:55
by bergler
It took a while, but here we go. This is my example of the Waffenfabrik Steyr. It has a very large brass barrel enlargements for a fixed fitting to fire out of fortresses. In fact, it is spring loaded to hampen the recoil. It has a seperate austrian acceptance under the barrel and was never blued. It was the assumption here that the Waffenfabrik Steyr was of a first production in 1903 to 1905, but seing your example this is obviously wrong. If you ever sell or trade your example pls let me know, I like it a lot.
Re: WAFFENFABRIK STEYR MARKED HEBEL DATED 1911
Posted: Tue 27 May 2014, 20:37
by signalman
Thank you, Could we see a photo of the Austrian proofs under the barrel ??
What you have is a great variation !
It is possible there might have been Austrian proofs under the Waffenfabrik Steyr, as I see what looks like a " W " below the factory mark. Wn ?? and then an eagle and date ??, which might have been erased by the hard use this warhorse went through.
Re: WAFFENFABRIK STEYR MARKED HEBEL DATED 1911
Posted: Sun 01 Jun 2014, 21:34
by bergler
Here is the proof under the barrel. I think that the barrel has a seperate acceptance because it was heavily modified and mabe afterwards undergone special testing....
You are totally right about a fade acceptance under the writing of Steyr.....there is a fade Wn, but I can not read more, unfortunaltely. So it had an acceptance like yours as well.
I will go to Slovenia and Italy this summer where there are some fortresses from WW1 as museums. I have been there several times and remember some tubes that were fitted into the concrete to fire out of the firtress. I am quite sure that this apparatus will fit in there.