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JP Sauer & Sohn, Suhl, Germany (pre-1945). JP Sauer & Sohn, Eckernforde, West Germany (post-1945) This is an old and established company who manufactured the reichsrevolver with V Ch Schilling and CG Haenel early in 1880s. The first Sauer company was founded in 1751 by Lorenz Sauer in Suhl, Thuringia, Germany, this locality being known as Waffenstadt Suhl in the past because of its many gunmakers. J.P. Sauer & Sohn is the oldest recorded gun maker in Germany.[1][2] In 1815 Johann-Gottlob Sauer started managing the firm; in 1835 Johann Paul Sauer became manager. In 1840 that Johann Paul and his son, Lorenz Sauer created the new name and trademark of J.P. Sauer & Sohn. After the Second World War, the company quit the firearms field for some years, to return in the 1950s, making a number of single-action ‘frontier’ style revolvers. This was largely for export to the US to take advantage of the ‘fast draw’ mania of the time. The company, SIG Sauer GmbH, is a German company, was formed in 1976 as a partnership between Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) of Switzerland and J.P. Sauer & Sohn of Germany. SIG Sauer is the brand name used by two sister companies involved in the design and manufacture of a range of pistols. American link The Great Western revovlers were introduced in the early 'Fifties as copies of the Colt Single Action Army revovler, and were American made in Hollywood, California. About that time Colt re-introduced their Single Action Army, and Ruger had introduce the Blackhawk, and Great Western sort of folded as a company. Hy Hunter, a distributor/jobber for Great Western, went to J.P. Sauer & Sohn in Germany and began making the single action formerly made by Great Western. These guns were sold under the name of Hy Hunter. For some reason Hy Hunter left the game and production continued under the name Hawes. These Sauer guns were marked Western Six Shooter, Western Marshal and Montana Marshal with small difference between them. There were models in .22LR, .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum and .45 Long Colt. The Western model is a copy of the 1873 Colt Peacemaker. The solid frame revolver uses Colt’s strong single action trigger mechanism. The long hammer has a slow lock time, but works very well on hard primers. It differs from the original in the cartridge used and the firing pin that is mounted in the frame and not on the hammer. There is no hammer block, so like the Peacemaker, the revolver should not be carried with a cartridge under the hammer. The pistol is well made of good materials by the well known mechanical manufacturing Company. (ref. ‘Pistols of the world’ by Hogg and Weeks p202, https://www.firearmstalk.com/threads/hawes-357-magnum.100255/)

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