Gewehr 88, Viktor Christian Schilling - Suhl, 8x57I, #31647,
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Lot 620
O/U Repeating Combination Gun, German, Gewehr 88, 8x57I; 16/65, #D.R.G.M.126513, § C
Starting price 2.500 EUR
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Detail

60 cm rifle barrel, octagonal at the breech, beneath that a 58,5 cm shotgun barrel, engine-turned rib, open sights, (original additional folding leaf missing), action of the commission Gewehr 88, punched and engraved with foliate scroll, double triggers with single set trigger in front, butterknife bolt handle, shotgun barrel tilting to the right for loading, beneath that a long horn underlever similar to type Collath, manual extractor, choked full, this barrel is fired by a hammer on the left sidenext to the bolt shroud, the adapted flag type safety blocks that as well as the cocking piece of the rifle barrel itself, walnut stock, oval cheekpiece, short wooden fore-end, rifle barrel bears Ferlach proof marks, the bolt head has German proof marks, receiver inscribed „D.R.G.M. (Deutsches Reichs Gebrauchs Muster) 126513, the arm has been reblued (the receiver has probably been colour hardened originally), shotgun bore pitted, stock with a repaired crack on the left hand side on top of the grip, year of manufacture about 1900, the buttstock presumably later replaced, extremely rare sporterised adaption of the Spandau commission Gewehr 88, condition III.