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SOFE DESIGN: ARMS, ARMOUR & ANTIQUES: MARCH 26th

posted by editor@armsandarmoruauctions.com at 2022-03-17 11:27:00

Sofe Designs Auction sale of March 26^th includes four very fine wheellock rifles. The chiseled and inlaid German or Austrian example pictured is dated 1685. Other fine guns in the sale include a flintlock Kentucky Rifle by Adam Nosh, a gamblers five shot ring gun, a Caucasian miquelet rifle and a European style cased Colt .31 pocket revolver.

Among the swords in the sale is a fine Russian imperial naval dirk, a fine keris with silver and gold decoration, a rare Indonesian Belida sword and a 16^th C Italian falchion. Among the other lots offered are Chinese imperial armours and a good Victorian suit of armour.

Click on the image for a link to the sale

CENTURION AUCTIONS: COLLECTIBLE FIREARMS AND MILITARIA

posted by editor@armsandarmoruauctions.com at 2022-03-01 09:34:00

Among the lots in Centurion Auctions sale of the 10^th are a pair of French model 1733 flintlock pistols by Blachon. Other early guns offered include a pair of Evan Philadelphia dueling pistols, a beautiful Spanish miquelet flintlock fowler by Antonio Guisasola and a pair of English dueling pistols by Manton.

WW2 collectible arms offered include a 1944 Inland Division M1A1 .30 cal paratrooper carbine, a Browning M 1919 cutaway model, and inert MG 34 and a German Berlin-Lubecker K43 semi-auto rifle. Other lots of interest are a Winchester model 101 shotgun with three sets of barrels and a range of civil war arms, among them a US navy flare pistols, a 5^th model Burnside carbine an 1853 Tower Pattern Confederate musket. Click on the image for a link to the sale.