60 cm barrels with flat engine-turned rib, choked 1/4 and 3/4, gold ribbon inlaid breech ends and mounts, Kersten action with four trigger plate locks, side plated, deep relief chiselled game scenes, fighting red stags watched by hinds and calves in front of the Goasu-Kamm, red fox and mallard on the left hand side, summer chamois in front of the Dachstein glacier and marmot on the right hand side, rutting roe buck on the action bottom, courting capercailzie on the pistol grip cap, all surrounded by gold ribbons and Edelweiss with gold inlaid blossoms, on top lever right and left silver inlaid Edelweiss set with a lapis lazuli, Greener safety on the left hand side, barrel selector on the tang, two single set triggers, burr walnut stock with hog's back comb, Bavarian cheekpiece, ventilated rubber recoil pad LOP 36 cm, fore-end with schnabel and Deeley latch, ERA pivot mounted Schmidt & Bender Zenith 2,5-10x56 illuminated reticule 4Ai and Schmidt & Bender 1,5-6x42 illuminated reticule 4Ai, including 400 rounds of .22 Hornet and 120 rounds of 7x65R in an aluminium gun case, 4,6 kg, year of manufacture 1998, condition 1. This vierling is the child of many fathers, action and barrels stem from Outschar in Ferlach, actioner was Wilfried Glanznig, the engraving was done in a couple of years time by Reinhard Philipp, stocked and finished was the gun by Franz Struger in Bad Goisern, in total more than ten specialists were working on this arm. A true potpourri of artisans created this unique work of gunmaker's art. The extensive CV has been described by Sascha Numßen as "Der Gipfel des Machbaren" in "Wild and Hund", issue 2/2002, a copy of this periodical is included in this lot.
Category: Combination Guns