Thanks Timmy for the info about the Chicago exhibition, good learning for me.timmy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:14 am
His visit to Chicago: in the "colonies" over here, we call that the Columbian Exposition, because it took place on the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery. It went a year from 1892 to 1893. Left from that are the Museum of Science and Industry, with the simulated coal mine and the real German U505, and Soldier Field, where the Bears play (though much remodeled). There is a mansion of one of the "Copper Kings" of Montana that had its oak panels carved by German artists displayed at that exhibition, but which are now in the mansion. All sorts of things were displayed there and it was one of the very noteworthy world's fairs.
Those pictures show Franz Ferdinand a bit more trim than I'm used to seeing in pictures!
In case you are interested, some pics of a gun made in 1854 probably for Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833–1896), brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I and father of the heir to the Habsburg throne Franz Ferdinand .

more pics courtesy - Vojenský historický ústav Praha