4423 VERY FINE CASED PAIR OF DOUBLE BARREL PERCUSSION

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[?]Live Online Auction Starts In 2025 May 11 @ 10:00 (UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT)
Category Firearms & Military
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Start Price 2,000.00 USD
Estimated at 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD
PISTOLS BY A.V. LEBEDA OF PRAGUE WITH ACCESSORIES. Cal. 52 right barrel rifled, left barrel smooth. S# NSN (both). Anton Vinzent Lebeda was a fairly famous Prague gunsmith trained in Germany and Vienna who built guns and rifles for Kaiser Franz Josef 1st. These high quality pistols have 6-3/8" skelp damascus barrels that are unmarked. Rear of ribs are two color gold inlaid with very finely detailed flowers and foliage. Breech plugs without blow outs are nicely engraved. Breech irons with elevation adjustable rear sights are also scroll engraved and gold inlaid with the numbers "1" or "2" at rear. Front spring percussion locks with rebated tails have round bodied hammers. They are engraved with full coverage acanthus scroll with delicate shading. Right lock is engraved "LEBEDA", left "A PRAGUE". Trigger plate has engraved spire finial and trigger guard has scroll on bow. This very nicely cut and shaded engraving is enhanced by metal with its original French gray finish. Stocks with deep checkered bag grips are made of very well marbled European root walnut. Relief cast fancy silver crest plates at tops of grips are engraved "NS". Stocks attach to barrels with sidebolts through oval steel escutcheons. Rosewood ramrods with brass tips and tails mount through beaded pipes without thimbles. UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: pistols are housed in their original mahogany case with shaped German silver medallion on top engraved "Nickolaus Stieglitz". Case is lined in green cloth with gold embossed area of lid printed with maker's name and address. Bottom compartment is fully French fitted for pistols and fine array of original accessories including bright polished steel bullet mould, ebony handled nipple wrench, ebony and brass loading mallet, brass three compartment powder flask, turned ebony cap bottle (containing a spare nipple) and turned horn loading funnel. There are two covered compartments. One contains a brass tag marked "18" and a Bob Jeche business card. The other compartment contains lead balls and a cancelled Czechoslovakian postage stamp featuring a percussion pistol by Lebeda. CONDITION: exceptionally fine. Barrels with over 90% original brown. French gray remains bright and without any wear on metal parts. Trigger blades retain most of their temper blue. Stocks retain over 90% original French polish with a scattering of marks. Bores are bright and shiny with some scattered pits. Mechanically crisp. Case exterior is fine with nearly all original finish, showing some marks, compressions and a 14" crack 3" behind front of case. Interior cloth is very good with rubs and compressions. Gold of maker's name almost completely faded away. Accessories are fine to very fine. (01-26474/MGM). ANTIQUE. $4,000-6,000.