Jonas Geringer, Bohemia...heard of him?

[Simandl Fan]

Dear Friends,

I have an 1870s bass marked "Jonas Geringer, Sussen (or Fussen)" on the label, and Bohemia elsewhere. Have you ever heard of this maker?

Thanks,
Greg Livingston

[Eric Hochberg]

Ask Ken Smith at smithbassforums.com. He knows a lot about old basses.

[robobass]

I don't know the maker, but Fuessen (or Fussen with two dots over the "u") is a resort town at the very bottom center of Bavaria. Quite far from "Bohemia", so the two tags are contradictory.

[tomshepp]

Greg!
Happy summer!
Tom

[bassist14]

hey guys, it´s "Füssen".
you need some of these?: üüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüü üü?
:-)

[Michael Eisenman]

How about Füßen, then?

[robobass]

Füssen, Füßen... Ah, I didn't know that I could post non-English characters on this site. I absolutely avoid doing it in emails. The umlaut (the two dots) is usually respelled as an added "E" (Ä=AE and Ü=UE) in domain names and such to make it universally recognizable in digital form. The eszett (ß) is somewhat interchangeable with "ss", but there are specific rules. I don't know them, but "Füssen" seems never to be spelled "Füßen".
I suppose this arcane knowledge is not useful to the OP, but it's kind of fun for linguistics nerds