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Field & Range Firearms
The upcoming Field & Range Firearms sale, offered by Morphy Auctions, will include a large collection of antique guns. One lot of interest from the collection is an 1886 Winchester short rifle. The firearm has a 22-inch tapered round barrel with a full-length magazine tube. A Cia single-shot pistol also…
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Firearms, Militaria, & Ephemera
18th-century powder horns served as both utilitarian items and canvases for art and political dissent. One of the leading American powder horn carvers of the time was Jacob Gay, a craftsman who signed many of his pieces with his initials. A powder horn from 1758 attributed to Gay will be…
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Spring Premiere Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction
The Spring Premiere Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction showcases jewelry, firearms, collectibles, and more. Leading this auction, offered by O’Gallerie, is a men’s diamond and 14-karat gold solitaire ring. This size 11 ¼ yellow gold ring features an old European-cut diamond weighing approximately 2.85 carats. An emerald, diamond, and 18-karat…
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Firearms, Militaria & Tools Auction
The upcoming Firearms, Militaria & Tools Auction, offered by Cordier Auctions, will include over 300 lots of knives, pistols, tools, and more. Included in the sale is a stainless Colt Anaconda revolver with black hard rubber grips. The double-action revolver was manufactured in 1992 by Colt's Manufacturing Company. The style…
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Arms and Armor: Live Auction
The upcoming Arms and Armor: Live Auction, offered by Cowan’s Auctions, presents a variety of classic revolvers and other guns. Included in the sale is a Texas Colt Paterson with an extra cylinder serial. Commonly known as the Texas Paterson because of its association with the Texas Ranger, this revolver…
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Firearms, Militaria & Tools Auction
The Firearms, Militaria, and Tools Auction, offered by Cordier Auctions, includes colt revolvers, shotguns, weapons from World War II, and various automatic and semi-automatic rifles. Featured is a first-generation single-action Army Colt revolver. The 5.5-inch barrel is marked “Colt's PT FA Mfg. Co., Hartford, CT, U.S.A.” A WWII Karabiner 43…
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Country and Estate Auction Day 1
Painter Hugh Bolton Jones was known for his landscapes of New England. Initially a Hudson River School painter, it was the influence of Alexander Harrison that led Jones to adopt a Tonalist style. The upcoming auction, presented by Duane Merrill & Company, features one of the artist’s oil landscape paintings.…
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Estate & Collection Auction Day 2
The founder of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Charles Brinckerhoff Richards, was assigned the task of designing a new conversion mechanism for Colt. The demand of the U.S. Army for metallic cartridge revolvers led to the design of the "Richards Conversion." The upcoming O'Gallerie auction highlights a Colt model…
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Winter Firearms and Militaria
The upcoming Winter Firearms and Militaria sale, presented by Wickliff Auctioneers, brings to auction over 200 weapons from various time periods and countries. Featured in the auction is a semi-automatic DWM Luger. Made famous for their use by the Germans in World War I and II, this particular Luger was…
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Field & Range Firearms
Morphy Auctions’ upcoming Field & Range Firearms Auction, presented this February, will include a large collection of antique guns. One lot of interest from the collection is Cranston Arms model 1941 machine gun. This firearm is marked "Cranston Arms Co" on the right side of the receiver within an inverted…
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Sporting Arms and Accoutrements
The upcoming Sporting Arms and Accoutrements auction, offered by Cowan’s Auctions, presents a variety of classic firearms and other weapons. Included in the sale is a Colt .44 caliber Army model revolver from 1860, which was the most widely carried revolver during the American Civil War. Though little information is…
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Extraordinary, Sporting, & Collector Firearms
Morphy Auctions will present the Extraordinary, Sporting, & Collector Firearms two-day sale, a selection of accessories, handguns, rifles, shotguns and more. One standout lot is an original Colt Model 1883 Gatling gun. The design of the 43 Spanish caliber gun includes an original Accles feed drum with steel internals. Another…
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Amoskeag Live #123
The Amoskeag Live #123 auction presented by Amoskeag Auction Company, Inc. offers handguns, rifles, swords and knives from the 1800s to today and from sea to sea. The extremely fine Austrian over-under shotgun by Ludwig Borovnik highlights an openly flowing scroll on the left and right flats. The flats also…
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Amoskeag Online #123
Rifles, shotguns and handguns all share the spotlight in the Amoskeag Online #123 auction presented by Amoskeag Auction Company, Inc. The selection ranges from the rare U.S. models to Russian ones. With only 100 manufactured, the 1888 U.S. experimental positive cam trapdoor rifle is equipped with a standard front sight,…
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Aug 19-20 Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction
Lifestyle is defined by an individual’s ideas, tastes and interests. Keeping such ideas in mind, O’gallerie presents Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction for making people’s homes and especially lives beautiful with. Be a fine art admirer, a fire and arms enthusiast, or a decorative arts buyer; the two-day auction appeals…
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Firearms and Accoutrements Auction
Firearms shaped world history. In the centuries following the invention of gunpowder in China, the world’s armies and rulers worked feverishly to create new weapons that would change the course of a battle from great distances. Over the centuries, firearm technology has developed from holding a burning fuse to a…
