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€ 2.000 - 3.000
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€ 4.375
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Vienna
length 38 cm.
Octagonal, smoothbore, 12 mm cal. barrels (clean bores), browned and with damascus design, signed "C. Pirko in Wien" in gold among gold and silver decorations. The bases finely engraved and with gold and silver frames; the breech with the mark of the Liege test bench on the left side; precision foresights browned on gold frame and remains of marks engraved in gold and silver; 12 mm cal nozzles. Tangs numbered "1" and "2" in gold, finely engraved and provided with rear sight. Forward spring locks, majestically engraved with hunter holding a rifle and sitting in a field, surrounded by spirals; the lock plates marked "WIEN". The counterplates signed "PIRKO" and skilfully engraved with a depiction of a female figure sitting in a carriage drawn by two deers and followed by a hound, in the countryside; the counterplate with fishbone decoration on the border. Elegant wooden half stock sculpted with leaves in bas-relief on the to the fore-end caps, with checkered butts. Mounts decorated with leaves and geometric motifs. Trigger guards carved with an oval mask set in a gold frame, provided with finger support. Butt-plates with screwable primer case. Brass-tipped, wooden ramrods. Kept in a non-matching case made of fine briarwood, on the lid the Austrian double eagle made of bronze; inside a label by Carl Pirko.
length 38 cm.
Octagonal, smoothbore, 12 mm cal. barrels (clean bores), browned and with damascus design, signed "C. Pirko in Wien" in gold among gold and silver decorations. The bases finely engraved and with gold and silver frames; the breech with the mark of the Liege test bench on the left side; precision foresights browned on gold frame and remains of marks engraved in gold and silver; 12 mm cal nozzles. Tangs numbered "1" and "2" in gold, finely engraved and provided with rear sight. Forward spring locks, majestically engraved with hunter holding a rifle and sitting in a field, surrounded by spirals; the lock plates marked "WIEN". The counterplates signed "PIRKO" and skilfully engraved with a depiction of a female figure sitting in a carriage drawn by two deers and followed by a hound, in the countryside; the counterplate with fishbone decoration on the border. Elegant wooden half stock sculpted with leaves in bas-relief on the to the fore-end caps, with checkered butts. Mounts decorated with leaves and geometric motifs. Trigger guards carved with an oval mask set in a gold frame, provided with finger support. Butt-plates with screwable primer case. Brass-tipped, wooden ramrods. Kept in a non-matching case made of fine briarwood, on the lid the Austrian double eagle made of bronze; inside a label by Carl Pirko.