New "Best Gun" Photos added - This is how a Funk Premium should look - the Gun is app. 100 years old!
DF cal. 16: Metal Parts make-over - take a look!
BDF cal. 16
New scope mount pictures added etc.
Funk's participation in The "Internationale Jagd-Ausstellung" in Berlin in November 1937
100 Years Celebration in 1935
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Waidmannsheil
Peter Ravn Lund
Advertisement 1928
The five companies were E. Schmidt & Habermann, Aug. Schüler, F.W. Kessler, Bernhard Merkel and Funk
Advertisement, "Wild&Hund" No. 22 1926
Firma Funk hat sein 100-jährigen Geschäftsjubiläum in 1935 gefeiert
In 1935 the Funk Company celebrated its 100 years in the weapon-business.
Gewehrfabrikant Ernst Funk war der dritte Inhaber mit c. 14 Mitarbeiter in 1935
Ernst Funk, owner of the Funk Company, was the 3. owner in this family company, that had about 14 employees in 1935
Veröffentlichung der Deutschen Versuchsanstalt für Handfeuerwaffen, Wannsee.
Deutsche Jagd 24/1938
Archiv: Axel Pantermühl, Dessau und Karl-Heinz Pape, Schöningen, Deutschland.
Christoph Funk Gewehrfabrik, Ausstellungsstück: Kombinierter Repetierer 7x64 + .22 L.R. (D.R.P. Nr. 644051 - von 14. Märtz 1937)
Firma Funk hat 2 aussergewöhnliche Ausstellungsstücke mitgebracht.
"Leistungsschau der Waffenindustrie und des Waffenhandwerks":
Christoph Funk Gewehrfabrik, Gruppe 1 Repetierbüchsen:
Modell: Kombinierter Repetierer
7x64 - 22 long rifle
"Leistungsschau der Waffenindustrie und des Waffenhandwerks":
Christoph Funk Gewehrfabrik Gruppe 13:
Bockbüchsflinten mit nebeneinanderliegenden Kugelläufen
Modell: Doppelflinte mit unterliegendem K.K.-Lauf
Kaliber: 16 x 16 - .22 long rifle
Pistol Grip with Buffalo Horn Rosett
S/N 34712
16 bore
Ejector System Holland & Holland
Fine scroll
Proof before Sept. 1923
Probably built 1922-23
S/N 34536
16 bore
Ejector System Holland & Holland
Scroll engraving
Proof before Sept. 1923
Probably built 1921-23
S/N 34712
16 bore
Ejector System Holland & Holland
Fine scroll
Proof before Sept. 1923
Probably built 1922 - 23
S/N 34712
16 bore
Ejector System Holland & Holland
Fine scroll
Proof before Sept. 1923
Probably built 1922 - 23
S/N 37144
Caliber 2 x 16/65 + 7x65R
Schlagstück-Sicherung und Spannung des Kugelschlosses durch Schieber
Seitenschlosse System Holland & Holland
Jagdstückgravur
Manufactured/Proof: September 1932 (932)
S/N 34989
2 x 8x57JR
Ejector System Holland & Holland
Hunting scenes and leaves
Proof before Sept. 1923
Probably built 1923
S/N 35725
Caliber 20
Kersten Verschluss (Doppelgreener)
Ejectors
Manufactured/Proof: December 1923 (1223)
S/N 37872
Caliber 2x16/65 + 7x57R
System: Anson & Deeley
Ejectors
Manufactured/Proof: October 1939 (1039)
S/N 36578
Caliber 2x16/70
System: Anson & Deeley
Ejector System Holland & Holland
Manufactured/Proof: August 1928 (8/28)
S/N 36578
Caliber 2 x 16/70
Ejector System Holland & Holland
Hunting scenes and leaves
Manufactured/Proof: August 1928 (8/28)
S/H 34237
Caliber 8x57J
Rich engraving
Manufactured/Proof: c. 1923
S/N 34989
Caliber 2 x 8x57JR
System Anson & Deeley
Ejector System Holland & Holland
Full engraving with hunting scenes, leaves and roses
Manufactured/Proof: before Sept. 1923
S/N 34237
Engraving details on system
S/N 34654
Engraving details on magazin bottom
Beide Ausführungen OHNE Aufbau auf Laufschiene.
Mounts with lower mounts set flush with the barrel rib.
Engraving at barrel-end - lovely little detail
Metal restored June-October 2017
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Modell 6d
Modell 6d
Modell 6d
Mr. Axel Eichendorff from Germany figured out this: the Single Trigger is a patent No. 11.062 from 1901 by an American Allan E. Lard.
The construction has been used by Westley Richards (Crudgington & Baker The British Shotgun, Vol. 3, 1891 - 2011)
Here used on a Christoph Funk BDF from 1926.
9,3 mm mit Bleispitze, 14,5 g
-made for Christoph Funk Gewehrfabrik by DWM Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken A--G., Karlsruhe
Fabrik Nr.: 343C1 - 8 mm, 12,8 g., Vernickelter Kupfermantel