EXTRAORDINARILY RARE CASED PAIR OF ENGRAVED REMINGTON MODEL 1871 CIVILIAN ROLLING BLOCK ARMY PISTOLS.

EXTRAORDINARILY RARE CASED PAIR OF ENGRAVED REMINGTON MODEL 1871 CIVILIAN ROLLING BLOCK ARMY PISTOLS. SN 328 & 334. Cal. 50 CF. Fantastic consecutively numbered pair of pistols with 8″ rnd bbls, pinch blade front sights with a rear sight notch at the top of the breech block. Pistols are identical in every respect with nickel plated bbls, breech blocks, hammers & triggers and gold plated frames & grip frames. They are mounted with uncheckered ivory forearms and 1-pc grips that are all numbered to their respective pistols. While pistols are not consecutively serial numbered they do have consecutive assembly numbers, “13” and “14”. SNs were observed on left sides of back straps under the grips and the assembly numbers on left sides of front straps under grips, bottoms of bbls and in pencil inside forearms and inside the spacer blocks of the grips. Pistols are wonderfully engraved from the hand of renowned Master Engraver, L.D. Nimschke, with full coverage foliate arabesque patterns with punch dot background on frames and with Mr. Nimschke’s trademark “X” pattern over tops of frames, which pattern is frequently found on the carriers of Henry & Winchester 1866 rifles. Foliate arabesque patterns extend over sides of bbls with geometric patterns on each side at the muzzles. Tops of bbls are engraved in graduated dbl line snake & dot patterns. Hammer & breech block openings are outlined with large dots and top of back straps are engraved in flower blossoms with chip & dot patterns down each side of back straps and foliate arabesque patterns at the heels. Trigger bows are engraved in geometric patterns. Accompanied by an orig mahogany dbl casing with brass plate in the lid that appears to have the initials “GC” faintly engraved. Interior is black velvet lined and fitted for both pistols around a serpentine cartridge block with recesses for thirty-seven 50 caliber Remington centerfire Army/Navy pistol cartridges. 35 cartridges are present. As a matter of speculation the inscription on the plate in the lid has been intentionally defaced nearly obliterating the initials. This is the sort of act of defacing items that had been inscribed to George Armstrong Custer by his wife and surviving relatives when they later sold off Custer’s property. These gaudy pistols were exactly the type of merchandise that would have been presented to Gen. Custer during his lifetime, especially after the Civil War. CONDITION: Extremely fine plus, all matching on both pistols, probably unfired. Both pistols retain virtually all of their strong orig nickel plating and most of their orig gold wash. Ivory grip on #334 (Assembly #14) is cracked in the bottom and separated from its wooden spacer block. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bores. Case is equally new with a grain check in the lid and a few minor, light handling & storage nicks & scratches and retains virtually all of its brilliant orig varnish. Interior is lightly soiled with storage impressions of the pistols in the bottom and cartridge head impressions inside the lid lining. This is a spectacular set deserving of the most advanced collection or museum collection and certainly deserves more research. 4-42404 JR69 (20,000-30,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2011

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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	2256	$34,500.00	EXTRAORDINARILY RARE CASED PAIR OF ENGRAVED REMINGTON MODEL 1871 CIVILIAN ROLLING BLOCK ARMY PISTOLS. SN 328 & 334. Cal. 50 CF. Fantastic consecutively numbered pair of pistols with 8″ rnd bbls, pinch blade front sights with a rear sight notch at the top of the breech block. Pistols are identical in every respect with nickel plated bbls, breech blocks, hammers & triggers and gold plated frames & grip frames. They are mounted with uncheckered ivory forearms and 1-pc grips that are all numbered to their respective pistols. While pistols are not consecutively serial numbered they do have consecutive assembly numbers, “13” and “14”. SNs were observed on left sides of back straps under the grips and the assembly numbers on left sides of front straps under grips, bottoms of bbls and in pencil inside forearms and inside the spacer blocks of the grips. Pistols are wonderfully engraved from the hand of renowned Master Engraver, L.D. Nimschke, with full coverage foliate arabesque patterns with punch dot background on frames and with Mr. Nimschke’s trademark “X” pattern over tops of frames, which pattern is frequently found on the carriers of Henry & Winchester 1866 rifles. Foliate arabesque patterns extend over sides of bbls with geometric patterns on each side at the muzzles. Tops of bbls are engraved in graduated dbl line snake & dot patterns. Hammer & breech block openings are outlined with large dots and top of back straps are engraved in flower blossoms with chip & dot patterns down each side of back straps and foliate arabesque patterns at the heels. Trigger bows are engraved in geometric patterns. Accompanied by an orig mahogany dbl casing with brass plate in the lid that appears to have the initials “GC” faintly engraved. Interior is black velvet lined and fitted for both pistols around a serpentine cartridge block with recesses for thirty-seven 50 caliber Remington centerfire Army/Navy pistol cartridges. 35 cartridges are present. As a matter of speculation the inscription on the plate in the lid has been intentionally defaced nearly obliterating the initials. This is the sort of act of defacing items that had been inscribed to George Armstrong Custer by his wife and surviving relatives when they later sold off Custer’s property. These gaudy pistols were exactly the type of merchandise that would have been presented to Gen. Custer during his lifetime, especially after the Civil War. CONDITION: Extremely fine plus, all matching on both pistols, probably unfired. Both pistols retain virtually all of their strong orig nickel plating and most of their orig gold wash. Ivory grip on #334 (Assembly #14) is cracked in the bottom and separated from its wooden spacer block. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bores. Case is equally new with a grain check in the lid and a few minor, light handling & storage nicks & scratches and retains virtually all of its brilliant orig varnish. Interior is lightly soiled with storage impressions of the pistols in the bottom and cartridge head impressions inside the lid lining. This is a spectacular set deserving of the most advanced collection or museum collection and certainly deserves more research. 4-42404 JR69 (20,000-30,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2011 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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