Couldn't stop myself from posting this one also!
Found this a long time ago in a local gun store that was going out of business. It is an 1881 Marlin in .40-60 Marlin built around 1882. It belonged to a judge John Harriman of Saginaw, Mi. and he belonged to a schuetzen rifle club along with a young gunsmith named Emil Flues. He gave Flues the gun to modify in the late 1800's and Flues restocked it in presentation grade walnut stocks, with 22 LPI checkering. He also engraved the screw heads, and added a Ballard small Swiss buttplate. Flues stamped the gun on barrel and inside buttplate with his rollstamp, "E Flues Bay City, Mi.". The sights are a Ballard midrange vernier rear and globe front.
When I found this old gun it was in a barrel of junk guns at discounted prices. I was excited to get it, but puzzled by the name on the barrel. I contacted Gary Quinnlin in Pa. and asked if he knew who "E Flues" was. Gary is extremely knowledgeable on old guns, and pointed me towards the Bay City Historical Society, and Michigan Historical Society. There I discovered that E Flues was Emil Flues, and that he later went on to be chief designer at Ithaca Gun Co. in New York! I also found a biography written on Flues by his nephew, and contacted the nephew. He asked for numbers stamped on the barrel, hidden under the forearm. After giving him the number Flues stamped, he looked up the gun, and told me who his uncle built it for, and that it was the only lever action repeater his uncle had ever customized! The rest were fine single shot schuetzen rifles, or hand built custom side by side shotguns!
Accompanying the gun above are a Marlin 1881 loading tool designed by John Browning, and a Marlin powder measure designed by Wilkinson. Plus a handful of .40-60M cartridges.