This Schatz lantern has an interesting story behind and I'd like to introduce brief summary of Neil McRae's research about it as follows.
Long to short, Mr. Eugen Schatz had been selling Hasag products and other brands with his name on such as Ditmar since before the WW2 in Zug, Switzerland and needed to secure supplies to continue to sell products to the Swiss army and possibly to civilian market in Switzerland.
Therefore after WW2, when Hugo Shneider Aktiengesellshaft, Leipzig, Germany, a manufacturing company of Hasag products, were liquidated for war crimes, he negotiated with the Russian authorities and finally bought most of the inventory of manufactured parts. And he brought the lot back to Zug in Switzerland in order to continue selling Hasag products.
I suppose this Model 551L lantern could be one of those lamps assembled & sold by Eugen Schatz in Zug, Switzerland after WW2.
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