1893 Loewe Borchardt

[Big Norm]

Ron Wood,
just where did you see that snowball in the Sahara? Global warming is a funny thing. I almost had to erase the gazillion atta boys that I have after your name in my computer. Gosh, they ARE taking up a lotta space in my computer. It runs slow because of it too.

I looked at Stars Loewe-Borchardt shortly after writing my last post and, obviously, it isn't serial #19. So I went to Juliaauction and saw the Borchardt that you were referring to. Its Loewe #19, but its not what Walter described. Same old front sight, its got a stock lug and the right toggle knob is like the production Borchardts. (The left toggle knob is questionable). Oh boy, I thought that I had a gotcha on you. I still couldn't imagine that I had you, so I went to Walters write-up again. Sure enough, you got away. Apparently, Walter was looking at the patent diagram that I suppose is in his book on page 69. He didn't mention at he actually saw the physical gun itself. Ok, so you get to keep all those atta boys and my computer still is going to run slow. But gun #19 will play on my mind for a long time. Now we have to get someone to go to France and see Loewe-Borchardt #27 to see if it corresponds to the patent drawing.
Big Norm

Oh, did you happen to notice the size of the numbers on the magazine that Star presented. Considerably smaller that one would expect from seeing other Borchardt magazines. This issue came up before in emails between you and me.
Big Norm