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Magnificent and high art engraved .22 caliber Stevens Lord pistol showing full gold plate, checkered pearl grips, serial number 19 with museum quality archival collection of personal effects belonging to world champion shooter Ira Paine. This Stevens is elaborately engraved from muzzle to butt in the finest quality scroll engraving we have ever viewed on a Stevens Lord pistol even more ornate than a similar pistol gifted to Annie Oakley and this is the earliest known serial number on an engraved Stevens Lord. The pistol is mounted with a 12 ½” barrel and is equipped with 2 extra barrels, the 1st is a .30 caliber with matching engraving and the 2nd is a spare plain blue serial numbered to match and measuring 12”. This family collection was recently obtained from the descendants of Ira Paine and is extremely extensive with hundreds of items and we will seek to identify and catalog them fully. There is an important photograph of Ira Paine holding this exact pistol in a shooting position measuring approximately 9 1/2” x 6 ¾” on a French photographer advertising card. There is an engraved steel printer’s block in reverse intaglio showing a Smith & Wesson target model and the name Ira Paine who was a factory exhibition shooter for Smith & Wesson as well as Stevens. There is an original hand written will of Ira Paine signed and witnessed with recording date Jan 31st 1882 leaving his property to his wife who in turn left it to her heirs. Also there is two small boxes full of letters addressed to Ira Paine and postmarked back to the 1880s, 40 playing card size targets with heart decoration and embossed in gold “Chevalier Ira Payne” showing target model No. 3 Smith & Wesson. Eight more of these cards with inscription on envelope “Shot by Ira Paine”, a leather belt Paine constantly wore while shooting and an Elkington medal showing the portrait of King Edward and Queen Alexandra presented to him by the Royals, two large scrapbooks full of articles on his shooting and travels, several pamphlets providing a sketch of his career, handout advertisers with his picture on the front, a hand inscribed photograph from Hungarian prince to Ira Paine when he visited Europe dated 1885, five large glass shooting balls used in his exhibitions, a shipping tube full of large antique targets shot by Paine and kept by him as mementos, and last and most significantly his gold on enamel pendant and combination broach identifying him as a Chevalier of the French crown which he wore constantly and was proud of and is seen wearing in all of the brochures that are included. This award was the equivalent of being knighted in England and it is a very high quality piece showing delicate enamel with Red Cross on front and a Blue Cross on the back surmounted by the French royal crown and beautifully made in gold and contained in its original jewelers box. Ira Paine billed himself as the “Master Shooter of the World”. He was competent in all forms of shooting including pistol, rifle and shotgun and he was described as “The King of the Pistol” and constantly promoted both Smith & Wesson and Stevens for whom he was a representative of both companies. In his book he describes his choice in arms in a pistol would be a Stevens and in a revolver it would be a .44 Russian model S&W, in a shotgun it would be a Greener and in a rifle it would be a Winchester. He performed in exhibitions all over the world where he was highly acclaimed in newspapers of the day. Gastinne Renette the famous firearms maker and expert declared that Paine was the finest shot in the world after a match he won in his gallery. Ira Paine taught kings and royal personages to shoot and was generally as fine a shot as any man in the world. This collection is absolutely museum quality and would fill an entire large showcase with interesting period artifacts. Ira Paine was the dominate American shooter of the late 19th century that promoted American firearms successfully in Europe and the world over. Est.: $35,000-$70,000.
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