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Skinner Boston are selling historic arms from the Blanchard foundation on Oct 3^rd. Carrying the highest estimate if the Iconic Nock Volley gun pictured, used  by British the British navy to clear opponents from the rigging  during naval assaults. Other highly estimated lots include a presentation engraved Henry rifle, an Ulrich engraved Winchester 1866 saddle ring carbine and two engraved Volcanic pistols.

Scarce and fine examples of cased Colts offered include an 1849 engraved pocket revolver, a silver plated and engraved Metropolitan Police revolver and an exceptional engraved and nickel-plated Manhattan Navy. Click on the image for a link to the sale.

Czerny’s fall sale takes place over three days starting on September 25^th.  It includes two days of arms and armour and a third day focusing on medals, orders and decorations. The fine south German close helm with Augsburg style engraving circa 1540 pictured is one of several early armour lots in the first day. A spectacular embossed half-armour in the style of Caremolo Modrone and a German full tournament armour C 1600 will also cross the block.

Other offerings in this catalog include a fine Jade hilted Kard, a Prussian Garde Du corps helmet, a tachi signed Kuni Kartachi, several Japanese suits of armour as well as a rare tanegashimi matchlock pistol and rare Japanese flintlock tinder lighter. Rare swords in the sale include a fine Tatar sabre, an ottoman silver hilted shamshir and several Karabela’s.

The second day’s catalog has many fine antique firearms including an extraordinary wheellock tschinke, a puffer pistol form the guard of prince Christian I dated 1564, a Russian flintlock pistol made at Tula in 1787 for General Mikhail Kretchetnikov and an early 18^th C  Negroni mad snaphaunce sporting gun. This catalog also includes a selection of fine early European swords. The last day of the sale is made up of orders medals and decorations. Click on the image for a link to the sales.

Scollard auctions sale of the 36^th includes a wide selection of arms and armour along with fine antiques. Many of the arms lots have Mexican, Central and South American associations including the Spanish military flintlock rifle with association to General Bassecout y Dupre pictured. Other Spanish American lots offered include a massive pair of Peruvian silver stirrups, a Spanish Military “Trabuco” rifle, swords including Spanish cup hilt rapiers and regulation 18^th C. cavalry swords,  A Catalan stocked escopeta, is also included in this category as is a scarce “Amercia Americano Mexico” C. 1900.

Lots from other periods include a good decorative fluted full armour, a Walloon sword, several crossbows and stone bows, an Ottoman “Sisana” flintlock rifle and a Tibetan longsword. Click on the image for a link to the sale.

Guyette & Deeters Fall Sorting Sale takes place Sept 14^th. It includes a range of fine American and English sporting doubles O/U’s and other highly collectible arms in all price ranges.

Among the classic arms offered are over 40 examples of Parker shotguns, including the AAH grade 12 gauge pictured with 31-inch flid steel Whitworth barrels, a 16 gauge CHE grade skeet guns and a handsome DH grade Pigeon gun with Titanic barrels. Parker reproductions offered include a fine DHE 3-barrel set in 28 and .410 gauges and a BHE grade 12 Gauge gun with two sets of barrels.

Among the fine pairs in the sale are A true pair of 32 bore Greener shotguns, a pair of Moretti engraved Famars & a pair of Arietta game guns. Among the other lots are a fine Churchill 28 gauge premiere quality sidelock, an extremely rare factory engraved Winchester model 1886 with matted barrel in 45-90, a Browning superposed  Midas grade .410 and a superb AH Fox  FE grade documented in the double gun journal. Clock on the image for a link to the sale.

Rock Island’s August Premiere Sale running 23^rd to the 25^th includes some of the finest firearms that have come to market this year in the western, sporting, military and antique categories. The sale includes over 1700 hundred lots. Carrying the highest estimate ($275,000-425,000) is the documented “Invictus” Singer 1911 pistol carried by B-24 pilot, Lt Col Thomas Moss of the 765^th Bombardment Squadron. This historic Singer is a “Holy Grail” for collectors.

Among the other standouts inthe sale are a gold and silver ornamented wheellock carbine from the cabinet d’armes of Louis XIII, King of France, a Buffalo Bill presented Winchester lever action model 1895, an attic-find mint condition Winchester model 1886, a USN Colt Gatling Gun, a Keith Thompson Engraved P.V. Nelson .410 OU shotgun and a rare US Johnson NFA transferable LMG.

Estimates among the 1700 lots range from $425,000 right down to $1,000 so there are many affordable guns for new collectors in this Premiere sale. Click on the image for a link to the catalog.
 

Centurion Auctions 2-day sale July 28^th and 30^th includes an interesting collection of flare guns, signal devices, naval line throwing guns and cannon ignition devices among many other sporting and collectible lots. Carrying the highest estimate among this group are two examples of the rare German WWI 4 CHRF barrel flare pistol pictured ($7500-9000). Arms like this would have propelled the ubiquitous illumination above the trenches at night among other signaling roles.
 
Other lots in this groups include a German 1903 dated AWW navy flare pistol, a WWI German navy AWW Einlaufige flare pistol, A German Navy HG Cordes line throwing gun, a US Navy 1882 Very’s flare pistol, a US navy 1861 Flare pistol and an unusual French T 1822 Conversion signal pistol. Among the earliest in this group is a rare British 1812 Naval flintlock Congreve device, used to signal, set fire to enemy ships and repel boarders. Click on the image for a link to the sale.

Rock Island Auctions Arms & Accessories sale of July 10th is one of two sales preceding the Premiere August sale. It includes many desirable and fine lots that so buyers do not need to wait until August to reward themselves. Leading the sale is a H&K SO5-K PDW pistol with an estimate of $3500-5000. A H&K P7 M8 with original box is also crossing the block. Military collector will also take note of the FN Herstal FS2000 rifle and the Robinson Armament M96 riles in the catalog.
 
For sporting shooters, a lovely engraved Rizzini Artemis O/U in 20 ga, an Aguirre y Aranzabal double in 28 ga, a French Verney Carron Sagittaire as well as a Beretta Model 470 EL double will, no doubt, catch a some eyes. Western collectors will like the second-generation engraved Colt SAA and Colt Wyatt Earp SAA with stock. There are a total of 988 lots offered in all prices ranges and the catalog includes a few unusual gun lots such as the WW2 era Edison M9 Arial Gunnery BB trainer and the 19t C European stock reservoir exposed lock air rifle. Click on the image for a link to the sale.

Czerny’s June sale includes three days of antique Firearms, militaria and arms and armour. The first day starts with a collection of American guns.  Among the US pistols selling are scarce Colt first, second and third  Model Dragoon revolvers, as well an a S&W Russian 3rd model and a Butterfield revolver . American longarms offered include a Winchester model 1886, a 73 carbine and several model 1873’s.

On the second day a range of early arms and antique amour will be offered with an Italian embossed parade shield carrying the top estimate of 1600 euro followed by  a rare Scottish two-handed sword, a Moghul jade hilted and jeweled dagger and a north Italian hand-and-a-half sword C. 1550. This day also  includes many fine pieces of militaria, among them a rare Polish Chapka of the 7^th lancers. Edged weapons firearms and armour from around the world representing different historical epochs fill out the extensive catalog. Day three continues with some spectacular antique guns and edged weapons including a rare Saxon puffer, a superb polish hussars sabre and the fine pictured pair of French flintlock over and under pistols, C. 1700, by Boiron. 

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Landshuter Rüstkammer will be offering a wide variety of fine antique arms and armor, orders and decorations on June 21^st  & 22^nd . A fine and attractive French cuirassier helmet with pierced visor C. 1620 that has a starting bid of 7000 euros will liley generate some competition. It is one of several early helmets in the sale. Among the early European swords and daggers offered are a selection of processional swords C. 1580 some with flamberge blades, a collection of Solingen made swords, a North Italian double eared dagger C 1520, a rare German “Kredenzmesser” C. 1520, an Early 16^th C. South German Messer sword, and a good selection of Polish Karabelas, Italian Schiavonas and a good group of war-hammers.
 
Among the antique guns and pistols offered is a fine thing rifle by Jean LePage of Paris, A German wheellock dated 1679, one of several wheellock long guns, a superb “puffer” pistol dated 1576, a duckfoot pistol by Blyth London and an air rifle C. 1800 by Mladick of Vienna. The sale includes a range of arms from around the world as well as orders and decorations. Clock on the image for a link to the sale. 

Antikvity Praha’s sale of June 8^th   includes a good selection of Arms and Antiques. Featured edged weapons in the sale include a Hungarian magnate’s silver mounted saber, a 17^th C cavalry officers’ sword by Peter Berg, Solingen, an Austro-Hungarian Mining 0fficials sword, a fine French silver hilted smallsword 18^th C. and a Pappenhiemer rapier 17^th C with Passau wolf marked blade.
 
Leading the offerings of antique guns is an outstanding and rare 2nd model Collier flintlock revolver. The large selection of fine guns pistols in the auction also include rare factory engraved New Haven Arms Co. Volcanic lever actions No. 1 and No. 2 pistols, a Smith & Wesson New Model No. 3 Russian revolver one of several S&W’s offered, a Swiss model 1878 revolver, a cased Mass Arms Co Maynard primer revolver, a cased pair of flintlock officers pistols by Nock, a pair of Austrian over and under flintlock pistols by Stockel, a Westley Richards revolver and a colt Model 1851 Navy. Long guns include a Winchester model 1876 in 54-60, a pair of flintlock over and under guns by Lippart and a fine flintlock rifle by Jospeh Muller.
 
Other Arms lots offered include a fine selection of daggers from the last three centuries, a Morion helmet, several Japanese swords and militaria lots including painted 19^th C targets. Click on the image for a link to the sale.