Very rare document...
 

Dear Friends,
I am glad to show you this rare document I have recently acquired.
According to Mr. Kornmayer, this is one of the three George Luger letters today reported.
A short introduction about the historyâ?¦
This letter has been written in 1892 to Paul Mauser. At that period, Luger was working for the Mauser Company. The cooperation between Luger and Mauser ended around 1897 because of problems between Paul Mauser and George Luger regarding patents.

You can read how and when this letter has been found from the words of the previous owner: Mr. Kornmayer.

More information about this letter are available in my web site: www.lugerlp08.com .

Actually, I have prepared few pages describing more in detail the letter, his history and also providing a translation into English.
Please have a look...

I hope you enjoy this exceptional documentâ?¦

Cheers,
Mauro

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WoW what a find, I am glad for you. Thank you for sharing.:cheers:
Alf

Mauro..Very interesting! Beautiful script writing in those days...

Jerry Burney

What an amazing document Mauro! Thank you for sharing this with the forum.

Any chance for an accurate translation?

Dave in TN.

Dave,
please have a look at my web site. You can find some more info about the letter and a translation into English as well...


Cheers,
Mauro

HI

I didn't know that Paul Mauser was a "Doctor of Engineering", nor that he had been knighted "von" Mauser.

If he were knighted, by whom?

Can anyone verify these facts?

Sieger

Sieger,

He was made 'Kommerzienrat' following the success of the Turkish rifle contract in 1887. This was followed by the title 'Geheimer Kommerzienrat' in 1908. As part of his 60th worker's anniversary, the King granted him the Honorary Cross of the Order of the Wurttemberger Crown, and this decoration came with a nobility title as a bonus. So from 1908 onwards, he was 'Paul von Mauser'. He became an honorary doctor of the Technical High School of Stuttgart in 1912.

He even had a seat in the German Reichstag from 1898 until 1903, was member of the Oberndorf town council in 1891 and became honorary citizen of Oberndorf in 1902.

(A Kommerzienrat can best be translated as Councillor of Commerce, a title that show the bearer to be an expert in his field and thus can be consulted by the government in affairs that touch his field of expertise. The follow-up title Geheimer Kommerzienrat takes it a step further and identifies the bearer as one who has direct access to the royal court).

So Kornmayer's reference to Paul Mauser as Dr. Ing. Paul von Mauser is correct, but Paul Mauser was neither in 1892, when the letter was written. His correct title in 1892 was Herr Kommerzienrat Paul Mauser.

ps: This 1892 letter was not written to Wilhelm Mauser, but to Paul Mauser. Luger writing a letter to Wilhelm would be a bit strange, as Wilhelm had kicked the bucket in 1882 and was already dead for 10 years in 1892, by the time the letter was written... Also, the letter opens with a reference to 'Herrn Commerzienrath', the title that Paul held at the time of writing.

Kornmayer's reference to 'Kommerzienrat Wilhelm Mauser' is probably just a slip of the pen, as far as I know Wilhelm never had that title and it's more likely that these documents originate from Paul Mauser's family.

Hi Gerben,
Good point. You are right, Kornmayer wrote Wilhelm in the first letter when explaining the history of this letter but when he is re-writing the text of the Luger letter, he is correctly writing Dr. Ing. Paul van Mauser (last picture).

This letter has definitely addressed to Paul Mauser as indicated by Mr. Kornmayer in his transcription and in others documents he provided to me about his researches.

Most probably in the next days I will receive more documentation and then I will update the web site.
Enjoy the document.

Mauro