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19. Klassische Auktion

AT-1220 Wien, Kagraner Platz 9  

Auction on Saturday, April 2, 2016 from 11:00  | Auction ended

Completed | Physical auction
Lot: 92

Hammer Double Rifle Joh. Springer's Erben - Vienna, .450 BPE 3.25", #6299, § C

Starting price 2.400 EUR
Result:
4.500 EUR

66 cm long barrels with flat engine-turned rib, rear sight with additional folding leaf for 300 m, top rib recessed on two places for mounts, back action hammer locks with hare's ear spurs and safety slides, T-bolt action with long underlever beneath the fore-end with lever fastener, all engraved with finest foliate scroll and Bulino type naive game scenes of wild boar and red deer on the left, chamois and roe deer on the right, ibex on the underlever and a courting capercailzie on the trigger guard, folding tang peep sight, double triggers both as single set triggers, carved horn finger rest, grained original walnut stock with stock magazine for two cartridges in the shape of a patch box in right hand side butt, en suite engraved with a majestic red stag, steel buttplate engraved with serial number and with a hinged trap holding a cleaning rod, LOP 34cm, including an original cartridge by G. Roth - Vienna, year of manufacture 1882, barrels externally slightly pitted, especially beneath the fore-end, bores immaculate with sharp rifling, action with traces of colour and some partial pitting, in all condition II-III. This exceptional hunting arm was custom made in 1882 for Moritz Faber, proprietor of the Liesing brewery. He is renowend for the "Faber houses" in the Viennese Ringstrasse-style, buildt between 1873 and 1878, triggering the cultivation of the former fortresses.