I�ve been through MyFonts, FontBook and a book called
Schreibschriften (from Novum Press) without finding any
exact matches...

This is a tough one!

maybe a free font? dafont.com alike? Where is our Free type guru ?

Ihave looked at DaFont in about 4 categories, at ThemeWorld, and 1001 Fonts. The only thing that made my pupils dilate was a ripoff of Excoffon's Choc, which at first resembled some of these characteristics. In other places RR's Hauser Script was a bit similar, but you said you need identical.

You may have to consider that this is a custom font. As I frequently tell people who want me to ID hand-lettered fonts that look like anyone's lettering (not the work of a calligrapher or sign artist), these kinds of fonts are the easiest and cheapest kind to make,so an advertiser who wants a unique look can spend less than $50 and have a font made of any sample lettering. If this is from a commercial advertiser's promo material, that may be exactly what you are dealing with, I'm afraid.

Ihave looked at DaFont in about 4 categories, at ThemeWorld, and 1001 Fonts. The only thing that made my pupils dilate was a ripoff of Excoffon's Choc, which at first resembled some of these characteristics. In other places RR's Hauser Script was a bit similar, but you said you need identical.

You may have to consider that this is a custom font. As I frequently tell people who want me to ID hand-lettered fonts that look like anyone's lettering (not the work of a calligrapher or sign artist), these kinds of fonts are the easiest and cheapest kind to make,so an advertiser who wants a unique look can spend less than $50 and have a font made of any sample lettering. If this is from a commercial advertiser's promo material, that may be exactly what you are dealing with, I'm afraid.