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all from the next Holts auction "Sale A0918 Lot 647 - Fine Modern & Antique Guns - September 2018 A SCARCE 11mm PINFIRE REVOLVING SHOTGUN, UNSIGNED, MODEL 'LEFAUCHEUX TYPE', serial no. 6430, Belgian, circa 1870, with octagonal smoothbore 24in. barrel, blade fore-sight, standing notch and elevating ladder rear-sight, plain blued cylinder with external ratchet locking, open iron frame (traces of colour), chequered walnut straight-hand butt-stock with raised cheek-piece, iron heel-plate and flat-fronted complex trigger-guard bow" https://auctions.holtsauctioneers.com/as...2&saletype= this is probably not the .410/ 36 ga pinfire shotshell but a smaller one iirc, called 10 mm pinfire shotshell most times "A SCARCE 8-BORE PINFIRE DOUBLE-BARRELLED FOWLING-GUN, MODEL 'LEFAUCHEUX PATENT', serial no. 6934, Swedish circa 1870, with damascus 33in. barrels, the top-rib signed 'C.A. FISCHER & SOHN, LUBECK, HOFLIEFERANTEN INV. MAJESTAT D. KONIGS V. SCHWEDEN', twin gold lines at breech outlining the pin-holes, deep hammer nose-wells, long top-tang, borderline and scroll engraved rounded action and back-action locks, scroll engraved hammers, chequered walnut butt-stock with raised cheek-piece, iron heel-plate, complex carved and moulded horn cover for the lower tang, moulded horn cover for the forward facing under-lever, smooth walnut fore-end and fitted with swivels " https://auctions.holtsauctioneers.com/as...685&image=5 sold by a german dealer "Fischer in Lübeck" this double came from sweden. till now I found no evidence that such large shotguns were used in germany but they were of course in use on the cost for geese in northern europe "WESTLEY RICHARDS, LONDON A 12-BORE PINFIRE DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING-GUN, MODEL 'BAR-IN-WOOD', serial no. 11440, for between 1866-1871, with 30in. damascus barrels, white metal bead at extreme tip of top-rib with lip to bottom rib, the top-rib signed 'PATENT' and 'WESTLEY RICHARDS, 170 NEW BOND ST. LONDON', carved and scroll engraved standing breech and top-tang, broad scroll engraved top-lever signed 'WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT', chequered walnut half-stock with 'crab-claw' joint at hinge, engraved iron furniture and missing horn tip from fore-end" the very first pinfire double gun(iirc!) with a top lever https://auctions.holtsauctioneers.com/as...791&image=4 |