Antem Waniczek Girandoni-type repeater

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Auction blurb was: "Estimate: €14,300 - €17,000

Description: Octagonal, rifled, 13 mm cal. barrel, marked "Antem Waniczek a Prag" (freshened) among racemes, provided with brass foresight and rear-sight with two adjustments, featuring the crowned monogram "T" at the base. Forward spring lock, the plate finely engraved with racemes, loading lever with engraved neck depicting an animal. The neck featuring a wide, brass plaque with engraved racemes at the edges and signed "Antem Waniczek a Prag" at the center. Turn-off, iron butt-magazine shaped as a truncated cone with convex edge and black, leather covering (small defects), brass base with thread to assemble it. Tubular magazine, placed on the right side of the barrel (loading gate with no spring), partially covered with the long spring of the bolt. Long, wooden fore-end (a small missing part at the base) with engraved, iron mounts. Missing ramrod. A brass plug on the left side.
dating: third quarter of the 19th Century
provenance: Czechoslovakia
dimensions: length 103,5 cm."