FINE CASED GARNITURE OF PERCUSSION PISTOLS & DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUN W/ POSSIBLE ALFRED, DUKE OF EDINBURGH & SAXE-COBURG GOTHA CONNECTION.

FINE CASED GARNITURE OF PERCUSSION PISTOLS & DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUN W/ POSSIBLE ALFRED, DUKE OF EDINBURGH & SAXE-COBURG GOTHA CONNECTION. SN NSN. Made by David Koenig of Coburg, Germany. This beautiful garniture is composed of a pair of 40 caliber target pistols with 9″ slightly swamped oct bbls with microgroove rifling, a tiny dovetailed front sights & rare adjustable rear sights in the top tangs. Top flat of bbls is engraved “DAVID KOENIG in COBURG”. They are marked “1” & “2” respectively on bottoms. They are mounted in very nicely figured French walnut 1-pc stocks with delicate checkered horn, Schnabel tipped forestocks with German silver escutcheons for the single wedge. They have back action locks also with maker’s name. Trigger guards are large & fine with hooked finger rests & elaborate pineapple finials with sgl set triggers. Top tangs are tapered & numbered in gold “1” & “2” respectively and extend down back of checkered grips nearly to the ebony buttcaps. Buttcaps have enlarged, inlaid, silver shields with family crest of a crown over “A”. Lockplates, hammers, breech plugs, trigger guards & top tangs are all beautifully engraved in foliate arabesque patterns. The accompanying shotgun, also by David Koenig, is in about 14 bore, has 26-5/8″ twist steel bbls with smooth rib, marked with maker’s name & address and a sgl bead. It has two Damascus guides containing its orig ebony & brass ramrod. Mounted in a beautiful French walnut 1-pc stock with checkered straight wrist and a smooth steel buttplate. It has delicate back action locks engraved to match pistols with vignette of a bird dog & two pheasants in a field scene on left side and three pheasants on right side. Trigger bow is engraved to match with one pheasant. Trigger plate finial is an elaborate pineapple design and all of appended metal on shotgun is engraved to match. Bottom of forestock has an identical metal shield as in the buttcaps of pistols with family crest of a crown over “A”. Accompanied by their orig, green felt lined, walnut veneer over oak casing with a large brass plate in the top with family crest of a crown over “A”. Inside lid is embossed in gold with maker’s logo, name & address. Bottom is compartmented for the disassembled shotgun, the two pistols, an elaborate Damascene gold washed, bag shaped powder flask, a steel nutcracker sgl cavity ball mold for pistols, patch cutters for both pistols & shotgun, wooden handled turn screw & nipple wrench, an ebony handled keg shaped mallet/ramrod with ivory tip which is broken, an ebony handled cleaning rod handle with matching turned ivory knob, a worm and a jag plus an adjusting key for the pistol sights. There are two covered compartments with matching turned ivory knobs. And finally there is the orig black leather sling & 2-pc wood & brass cleaning rod. Accompanied by a hand written letter from David Koenig, undated, giving instructions on loading the pistols. Duke Alfred was born in 1844 & died in 1900 and was the Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg Gotha from 1893-1900. On 23 January 1874 he married Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the daughter of Alexander II of Russia and had one son & four daughters who lived although the son died at age 25 leaving no heirs. As with a lot of European royalty the lineage is connected primarily through Queen Victoria who married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. Regardless of the royal lineage this is a fine set of very well made percussion pistols & shotgun. CONDITION: Pistols are extremely fine, probably unfired with bbls retaining most of their fine, light blue/gray finish. Lockplates, breech plugs & top tangs retain fine, moderately faded case colors, slightly stronger on the #2 pistol. Trigger guards retain about 65% niter blue with balance flaked, not worn, to a light patina. Stocks are fine with checkering showing little or no wear with many small light scratches on left side. Set trigger on pistol #1 needs adjustment, otherwise mechanics are crisp, unable to check bores. Shotgun shows substantially more use with bbls retaining very little orig pattern having been cleaned to bright. Stock shows heavy wear with myriad small nicks & scratches but retains generous amounts of its orig hand rubbed finish with some light surface crackling. There is a small filled area just forward of trigger guard. Mechanics are fine. Case is very fine to extremely fine andsound with light storage & handling scratches and retains most of its orig varnish. Interior is lightly faded with very light soil. Nipple wrench is a little sprung with one ear cracked & aforementioned broken rammer tip, otherwise the implements & accoutrements are extremely fine. 4-33482 JR482 (5,500-7,500)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2008

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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	2706	$13,225.00	FINE CASED GARNITURE OF PERCUSSION PISTOLS & DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUN W/ POSSIBLE ALFRED, DUKE OF EDINBURGH & SAXE-COBURG GOTHA CONNECTION. SN NSN. Made by David Koenig of Coburg, Germany. This beautiful garniture is composed of a pair of 40 caliber target pistols with 9″ slightly swamped oct bbls with microgroove rifling, a tiny dovetailed front sights & rare adjustable rear sights in the top tangs. Top flat of bbls is engraved “DAVID KOENIG in COBURG”. They are marked “1” & “2” respectively on bottoms. They are mounted in very nicely figured French walnut 1-pc stocks with delicate checkered horn, Schnabel tipped forestocks with German silver escutcheons for the single wedge. They have back action locks also with maker’s name. Trigger guards are large & fine with hooked finger rests & elaborate pineapple finials with sgl set triggers. Top tangs are tapered & numbered in gold “1” & “2” respectively and extend down back of checkered grips nearly to the ebony buttcaps. Buttcaps have enlarged, inlaid, silver shields with family crest of a crown over “A”. Lockplates, hammers, breech plugs, trigger guards & top tangs are all beautifully engraved in foliate arabesque patterns. The accompanying shotgun, also by David Koenig, is in about 14 bore, has 26-5/8″ twist steel bbls with smooth rib, marked with maker’s name & address and a sgl bead. It has two Damascus guides containing its orig ebony & brass ramrod. Mounted in a beautiful French walnut 1-pc stock with checkered straight wrist and a smooth steel buttplate. It has delicate back action locks engraved to match pistols with vignette of a bird dog & two pheasants in a field scene on left side and three pheasants on right side. Trigger bow is engraved to match with one pheasant. Trigger plate finial is an elaborate pineapple design and all of appended metal on shotgun is engraved to match. Bottom of forestock has an identical metal shield as in the buttcaps of pistols with family crest of a crown over “A”. Accompanied by their orig, green felt lined, walnut veneer over oak casing with a large brass plate in the top with family crest of a crown over “A”. Inside lid is embossed in gold with maker’s logo, name & address. Bottom is compartmented for the disassembled shotgun, the two pistols, an elaborate Damascene gold washed, bag shaped powder flask, a steel nutcracker sgl cavity ball mold for pistols, patch cutters for both pistols & shotgun, wooden handled turn screw & nipple wrench, an ebony handled keg shaped mallet/ramrod with ivory tip which is broken, an ebony handled cleaning rod handle with matching turned ivory knob, a worm and a jag plus an adjusting key for the pistol sights. There are two covered compartments with matching turned ivory knobs. And finally there is the orig black leather sling & 2-pc wood & brass cleaning rod. Accompanied by a hand written letter from David Koenig, undated, giving instructions on loading the pistols. Duke Alfred was born in 1844 & died in 1900 and was the Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg Gotha from 1893-1900. On 23 January 1874 he married Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the daughter of Alexander II of Russia and had one son & four daughters who lived although the son died at age 25 leaving no heirs. As with a lot of European royalty the lineage is connected primarily through Queen Victoria who married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. Regardless of the royal lineage this is a fine set of very well made percussion pistols & shotgun. CONDITION: Pistols are extremely fine, probably unfired with bbls retaining most of their fine, light blue/gray finish. Lockplates, breech plugs & top tangs retain fine, moderately faded case colors, slightly stronger on the #2 pistol. Trigger guards retain about 65% niter blue with balance flaked, not worn, to a light patina. Stocks are fine with checkering showing little or no wear with many small light scratches on left side. Set trigger on pistol #1 needs adjustment, otherwise mechanics are crisp, unable to check bores. Shotgun shows substantially more use with bbls retaining very little orig pattern having been cleaned to bright. Stock shows heavy wear with myriad small nicks & scratches but retains generous amounts of its orig hand rubbed finish with some light surface crackling. There is a small filled area just forward of trigger guard. Mechanics are fine. Case is very fine to extremely fine andsound with light storage & handling scratches and retains most of its orig varnish. Interior is lightly faded with very light soil. Nipple wrench is a little sprung with one ear cracked & aforementioned broken rammer tip, otherwise the implements & accoutrements are extremely fine. 4-33482 JR482 (5,500-7,500) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2008 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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