"Jordan, Wolfgang" wrote:
>
> Bugbear was looking for information about an old mitre saw from
> Laupheimer:
>
> The company Jos. Steiner & Söhne, aka as 'Laupheimer Werkzeugfabrik'
> has been founded in 1859 and existed at least until 1960. There were
> eight tool manufacturers in Laupheim/Germany, with Steiner being one
> of the biggest. I put two pages from a 1937 Steiner catalog on my
> website http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/german_maker/steiner_gehr1.jpg

Hot Damn! The saw in the auction is bottom of that page; The page
appears to call it a 1006; the one at auction labelled 1906. What I took
as a date appears to be a model number.

Many thanks to Wolfgang for great references!

        BugBear