Lot 5159
A deluxe percussion target pistol, Geeringkx, Paris, circa 1880/90
Fine Antique and Modern Firearms | A83s | Live auction | 725 Lots
Hammer price € 3,900
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Octagonal barrel with multiply staggered ridges and twelve-groove rifled bore in 11.5 mm calibre. The upper side of the barrel richly decorated with raised arabesques inlaid in gold. At the breech gold-inlaid signature "Geeringkx à Paris". The base of the barrel with number "1". Mark "LB" with crown struck at the bottom of the barrel. Lock with raised gold inlays. Elaborately carved ebony half stock with iron furniture richly inlaid in gold. Barrel lightly pitted in places, cracks in the forestock, the butt with restored break. Length 43.5 cm.F. P. Geeringkx, recorded as gunsmith in Paris, displayed a pair of elaborately crafted pistols in the 1889 Industrial Exhibition. Purveyor to the foreign ministry.
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