Lot Essay
The gun appears to have been completed circa 1909 and represents an interesting and eccentric development in the history of the hammer ejector shotgun
THE PROPERTY OF AN INTERNATIONAL COLLECTOR
A RARE AND UNUSUAL FÜKERT PATENT 12-BORE DOUBLE-BARRELLED HAMMER EJECTOR GUN BY GUSTAV FÜKERT, NO. 1956
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A RARE AND UNUSUAL FÜKERT PATENT 12-BORE DOUBLE-BARRELLED HAMMER EJECTOR GUN BY GUSTAV FÜKERT, NO. 1956
The barrels engraved 'K.v.K. Hof.v. Kammerlieferant', the external hammer action cocked on the fall of the barrels, automatic top-safe, the heavily-carved detonating with extensive side-bolsters, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, figured stock with pistolgrip, cheekpiece and butt-plate, sling-swivels, the barrels with matt top-rib
Weight: 6lb. 6oz., 14 1/8in. pull, 29½in. barrels, Proof Exemption, sold as unsuitable for use
The barrels engraved 'K.v.K. Hof.v. Kammerlieferant', the external hammer action cocked on the fall of the barrels, automatic top-safe, the heavily-carved detonating with extensive side-bolsters, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, figured stock with pistolgrip, cheekpiece and butt-plate, sling-swivels, the barrels with matt top-rib
Weight: 6lb. 6oz., 14 1/8in. pull, 29½in. barrels, Proof Exemption, sold as unsuitable for use