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Rare and Fine Antique Arms and Armour, Orders & Militaria

Thursday 11 December 2025 e Friday 12 December 2025, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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A fine percussion rifle by Karl Pirko, Mid 19th Century

Estimate

€ 1.500 - 2.500

Sold

€ 1.875

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Vienna
length 95.5 cm.
Rifled (clean bore, rifling clearly visible), octagonal, browned, 14 mm cal barrel; at the breech a steel-finished section engraved with scrolls; at the start of the browned part a silver Greek fret, followed by the silver-inlaid inscription “C. PIRKO IN WIEN”; rear sight with one fixed and one folding leaf, front sight with silver side walls and a silver scrollwork insert. Engraved tang. Forward-spring lock with flat lockplate, signed “PIRKO WIEN” and finely floral-engraved. Working mechanism with double set trigger (stecher). Wooden full stock with a chequered base. Iron mounts decorated en suite; the rear part of the trigger guard, the patchbox, and the fore-end tip made of cow horn. Iron-tipped wooden ramrod with brass cartridge extractor. On the back, a small oval silver escutcheon.

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