Extraordinary & Historic Firearms Auction

NSN. 45-1/2" full oct 45 Cal. rifled bbl. marked "M. M. Benson". Heavy bench target rifle has a blonde curly maple stock which is emb...

This is a fine grouping of 18th and early 19th century hunting bags with associated attached horns. Also included in this lot are five loose bullet mo

Three brass bodied chargers. Two are marked "T. H. Peavey" and "Pat June 27, 1854" on tops, which have rosewood and brass chargi...

12" Cream colored horn with rounded base plug tacked in, fitted with carrying staple, has five raised rings toward tip cut down to dark contras...

This archive contains about 50 books, mostly first editions, concerning mostly the collecting of Kentucky Rifles, Pennsylvania Rifles, Early American

NSN. Lock of characteristic form with external main spring, engraved. All small parts original. Engraved pan cover. Stock is profusely inlaid with whi

NSN. Unusually good example of this type of wheel lock retaining nearly all of its original bright gilding on lock. The elaborately inlaid fruitwood s

NSN. Fruitwood stock elaborately inlaid with eagle, large stag, dogs, rabbits, expanded flowers, tendrils and white stag horn pellets. Engraved rondel

NSN. Diminutive lock, lightly engraved with dogs chasing a rabbit. Hammer engraved with florals. Dog spring well filed. Wheel plate with engraved flow

PLEASE NOTE (10/13/13): We were recently contacted by Ray Petry who at one time also owned this gun. Mr. Petry pointed out that the rear sight is miss

NSN. Listed in the article on the Master of the Animal Scrolls by Dr. Hans Schedlemann as being in the collection of his Majesty, King Leopold of Belg

PLEASE NOTE (10/13/13): At one time this gun was owned by Mr. Ray Petry who was kind enough to call us and share some information to be added to the d

NSN. The quality of carving on this particular example makes it very likely that it is actually from the hand of the so-called "Meister der Tie...

NSN. Silesian wheel lock rifles are much rarer than Silesian wheel lock tschinkes. This rifle is inlaid in the characteristic Silesian style with both

NSN. This work of art wheel lock rifle has a fruitwood full stock inlaid with the rare combination of stag horn, mother of pearl and silver wire. Addi

NSN. This extraordinary rifle has a lock deeply chiseled in relief with a king on horseback following a figure of Mercury holding a lion by his tail.

NSN. Lock stamped "AW" in heart shaped reserves and further engraved "Christi(an) Linta/Scul in berchtes". Very finely engraved ...

NSN. The type of carving as on this gun may be attributed to the Maucher school as it is far higher relief and more in the round than the Meister der

NSN. Lock with internal wheel engraved with woman's face and breasts surrounded by clouds. Wheel cover with the classic Austrian double headed e...

NSN. George Keiser was one of the, if not the, most important Austrian gunsmiths of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Existing examples from the