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[Ken Smith]

Franz Xaver Güttler?? Is there a year on the Bass?

This IS an actual maker/repairer in Vienna b.1857, d.1924.
Founded his own shop in 1889 after training earlier with Carl Franz Schmidt (from about 1869-1876) and then worked in shops for other makers till 1889.

The Bass however looks Germanic and Czech. The Scroll button looks Czech. The Gears look German. The Back looks Czech, the Ribs look German.. Help!!

I think this was a Czech shop Bass (Schoenbach), turn of the century and somehow, that Label found its way into the Bass. I don't see this Bass as being made in Vienna unless I need a refresher course on what a Viennese Bass looks like or the variety they produced. In that period, it was just as easy to buy a factory Bass and complete it in your own shop or sell it as-is out of the Box. .. Just my opinion..