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33rd Online Auction

 

Ending on Thursday, March 18, 2021 from 15:30  | Auction ended

Completed | Timed Auction

726

Lot: 726

pair of sidelock s/s shotguns Joh. Springer`s Erben - Vienna, Best Quality, 12/65, #10489 & 10490, § C

Limit 3.800 EUR
auction is completed
Thu 18.03.2021 18:46
Price:
4.000 EUR

72 cm Kilby chopper lump-barrels, concave, engine turned rib, ejectors, choked 1/2 & 1/2, third fastener, rib and top lever in gold numbered "1" and "2", bright action, bar-action sidelocks, intercepting sears, disc-set strikers with gas vents, automatic sliding tang safety with gold inlaid "SICHER", double triggers with articulated front blade, engraved with foliate scroll strewn with grotesque gargoyles and schaded, rolled trigger guard, grained walnut stock, straight diamond-shaped hand, elongated by 3 cm with matching wood to 39 cm, fore-end with Anson-push-rod, year of manufacture 1935, Birmingham re-proofed, 1936 delivered to a noble family from the Netherlands and for the first time on the market thereafter, the action of the No. 1 very slightly loose when the fore-end is taken off, the No. 2 still tight, butt with slight crack behind the tang, (No. 1 about 1 cm, No. 2 about 5mm), barrels slightly dented, ribs becoming loose, in a hard leather leg-of-mutton case for a pair of guns, thus in need of repair, condition 4.