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Rock Island’s timed sale finishes a couple of days after Christmas and is packed with moderately estimated lots, in case the seasonal stocking stuffers were off the mark.  The sale is full of sporting and military collectible arms as well as rare and unusual antique lots like the pictured  19^th C. English surgical amputation field kit by Ferris & Co, a company founded in the 1770’s.

Sporting guns offered include a lovely Winchester model 101 O/U in .410, a CZ rifle model 527 in  17 hornet, a Volquartsen custom Anschutz/Savage in .22 with Leupold scope, a Sako L579 rifle in 220 Swift and a scarce Remington 1100 in 16 Guage with its original box.

Military collectors may be interested in the DMS 1918 Luger, the Rock Island Armory M1 Carbine, one of several in the sale, the US Army model 1911 or the Mauser model 1879 Reichspistol.  Military arms from a wide range of countries, conflicts and epochs are represented in the sale. The sale with 995 lots also includes modern handguns, accessories and optics. Click on the image for a link to the catalog.

Czerny’s Auction in Italy is holding an important two-day sale of fine antique arms and armour starting on December 12th.
Day one features a wide range of 19th-century firearms and edged weapons. Among the highlights are several fine and are kerises. One, from Bali, has a beautiful pamor blade and is embellished with gold silver and rubies. A second, royal example is dated to the 16th century. Other notable swords in this sale include a Russian M1827 sabre with a finely etched Persian blade, a fine French First Empire sword by Fatou, a sabre from the Swiss Guard of Augustus II (circa 1725), a massive 18^th C. Polish or Hungarian Hussar sabre, and a Polish cavalry sabre dated 1791.

The first day of the sale also includes many American guns, such as a cased Colt Dragoon pistol, a brass-framed Henry rifle, a Volcanic lever-action pistol, a martially marked Colt Third Model Dragoon revolver, a selection of S&W and Remington pistols, a Hall flintlock breechloading rifle, and a Spencer repeating rifle.

Day Two of the sale features earlier European arms and armour, as well as Japanese and Persian swords and daggers. Among the top lots are Scottish and German two-handed swords dating to the 17th century, a superb etched morion helmet, and several composite armours. Also offered are a pair of over-and-under flintlock pistols by Borion, a superb Italian snaphaunce carbine, an Austrian wheel-lock rifle, and a fine German 17th-century matchlock rifle.
Click on the image for a link to the full catalogues.