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F.W. Freund Award Medal for Rifles 1883

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F.W. Freund Award Medal for Rifles 1883
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Awarded by the American Institute in 1883 to F.W. Freund. FW Freund was a very famous Western Custom Gunsmith. He worked in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Truly a piece of American Gunsmithing History. Frank W. Freund immigrated from Germany in 1857 and worked at Remington and served in the First New York Engineers during the Civil War. After the war, he and his younger brother George worked as gunsmiths and retailers in the American West. Their "Sportmen's Depot" initially followed Pacific Railroad's end of the line as it moved westward and then relocated multiple times. General George Crook used and broke the stock of a Freund rifle during the famous Big Horn Expedition. The brothers ended their partnership in 1880, and Frank Freund returned to the East in 1885 where he continued to work as a gunsmith, including for Theodore Roosevelt for whom he built two custom rifles.