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€ 1.000 - 1.500
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€ 4.000
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Vienna
length 105,2 cm.
Rifled, octagonal barrel, featuring the gold signature "C. PIRKO IN WIEN", with remains of browning (refreshed?) and remains of gold-inlaid at the nozzle and at the breech; with white metal foresight and fore-end on a carved base; 14.3 mm. cal. at the nozzle. Breech block with two countersinks and a single percussion (the left one never perforated, so the weapon was born as it is today), featuring a beautiful snake decoration in relief. The back has an engraved mask, the breech with a silver-inlaid frame. The tang engraved with racemes on a background of dashes and with a medallion featuring a howling wolf in relief. The forward spring lock finely carved with medallions featuring figures in relief, the one at the tang with a hound, the main one with a lion, a tree and some architectural elements between which there is a shield bearing the gold signature "PIRKO", all around engraved with racemes. Also the cock with a carved medallion from which a hound's head "protrudes", the rest with raceme and spirals engravings and the firing pin worked as a mask. Well-working mechanism. Half stock made of light wood with grip featuring remains of checkering, butt stock with cheekpiece and leaf carving at the muzzle ring (one crack at the fore-end and small restorations). The butt stock also featuring patchbox with a beautiful lid with floral carving, the release button is concealed in the central flower. Iron mounts engraved with racemes. The end of the wooden trigger guard, carved and pierced. The counterplate with beautiful decoration in relief reproducing the lock's decoration: one medallion with fawn in a wood and the shield marked "WIEN" in gold, the other with the hunter and his hound resting during a hunt. White metal shield in the lower part and remains of checkering also on the fore-end. The barrel with lower rib and ramrod pipes. Wooden ramrod with brass mounts.
length 105,2 cm.
Rifled, octagonal barrel, featuring the gold signature "C. PIRKO IN WIEN", with remains of browning (refreshed?) and remains of gold-inlaid at the nozzle and at the breech; with white metal foresight and fore-end on a carved base; 14.3 mm. cal. at the nozzle. Breech block with two countersinks and a single percussion (the left one never perforated, so the weapon was born as it is today), featuring a beautiful snake decoration in relief. The back has an engraved mask, the breech with a silver-inlaid frame. The tang engraved with racemes on a background of dashes and with a medallion featuring a howling wolf in relief. The forward spring lock finely carved with medallions featuring figures in relief, the one at the tang with a hound, the main one with a lion, a tree and some architectural elements between which there is a shield bearing the gold signature "PIRKO", all around engraved with racemes. Also the cock with a carved medallion from which a hound's head "protrudes", the rest with raceme and spirals engravings and the firing pin worked as a mask. Well-working mechanism. Half stock made of light wood with grip featuring remains of checkering, butt stock with cheekpiece and leaf carving at the muzzle ring (one crack at the fore-end and small restorations). The butt stock also featuring patchbox with a beautiful lid with floral carving, the release button is concealed in the central flower. Iron mounts engraved with racemes. The end of the wooden trigger guard, carved and pierced. The counterplate with beautiful decoration in relief reproducing the lock's decoration: one medallion with fawn in a wood and the shield marked "WIEN" in gold, the other with the hunter and his hound resting during a hunt. White metal shield in the lower part and remains of checkering also on the fore-end. The barrel with lower rib and ramrod pipes. Wooden ramrod with brass mounts.