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ANTIKVITY PRAHA: ARMS ARMOUR AND ANTIQUES: Dec 2nd

posted by editor@armsandarmoruauctions.com at 2023-11-21 09:36:00

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Antikvity Praha’s sale of December 2^nd includes a fine selection of Arms and Antiques, in addition to a superb replica of an Auburn boat tail speedster. Among the fine guns offered are a highly unusual and spectacular nine-barrelled flintlock pepperbox by John Twigg, a luxury cased double-barreled sporting gun by Bauerfield in Heidelberg extensively chiseled and engraved, an early Saxon wheellock rifle and a rare Swedish 17^th C snaphaunce hunting rifle. Among the cased pistols in the catalog are a Mass. Arms Maynard primed revolver, a pair of percussion pistols by Day London and a Gasser 1870 revolver retailed by Westley Richard London.

Swords in the sale include a very attractive chiseled iron German officer’s degen C 1640, a 19^th C. Austro-Hungarian magnates sabre, a German sword of justice, an 18^th C Austrian Hussars sabre, and a scare Danish-Norwegian Napoleonic saber. Other lots include an 18^th C. silver mounted hunting horn, a 16^th C Iron war hammer, and an early Iron cuirass, Dresden, C. 1600.

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posted at: 2023-11-21 09:36:00, last updated: 2023-11-21 09:38:28

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