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Old 18th January 2019, 03:10 AM   #1
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Have a chance to pick this set up, but need some price opinions please. Bavarian, by Christoph Kuchenreuter, of the famous gun making family. Condition is very good to excellent, although there is only 1 stock for the 2 pistols..... designed that way ? Or has one missing over the years ??
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Old 18th January 2019, 12:25 PM   #2
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In my modest opinion, since the two weapons are scratched (as evidenced by the accessory to cut the patch, the wooden mallet) the stock was movable, and could be used in either of the two weapons, and placed in one once the other one had fired, like a short rifle

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Old 18th January 2019, 03:49 PM   #3
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Hello Fernando,

I don't collect fire arms, but it seems a very nice set of pistols, i'am curious how much is the value of a kit like that one too!

They seem prepared to be used, have you tried to shoot any of your firearms ?

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Old 18th January 2019, 03:54 PM   #4
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Hello Fernando,

I don't collect fire arms, but it seems a very nice set of pistols, i'am curious how much is the value of a kit like that one too!

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BV
Have you not read my editing note in post #1, Bruno ? .

"No money appraisals in discussion forums. Please do it by PM"
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Old 18th January 2019, 04:18 PM   #5
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Have you not read my editing note in post #1, Bruno ? .

"No money appraisals in discussion forums. Please do it by PM"
are you seeing any money appraisal Fernando ? i just said i'am curious too... is this forum becoming a fascism forum ?
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Old 18th January 2019, 04:55 PM   #6
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are you seeing any money appraisal Fernando ? i just said i'am curious too...
... is this forum becoming a fascism forum ?
I guess you did not get it, Bruno; maybe my wrong transmission. Rikkn had originally asked for a money evaluation in his first post (which is not allowed, if you read the forum rules), reason why i edited it with the note i was now quoting.
In answering to your second paragraph, i will do it by PM.



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Old 16th October 2019, 06:08 AM   #7
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They seem prepared to be used, have you tried to shoot any of your firearms ?

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Bruno, I should hope he doesn't plan to. Another post on this thread commented that these guns look like they are unfired. The thing about flintlocks is that each and every time the cock (bearing a flint in its jaws) rakes against the frizzen as it snaps forward, tiny little incandescent particles of steel are scraped off the frizzen's surface. These hot specks of metal are the sparks that ignite the priming. Contact with the flint leaves gouge marks on the frizzen face, something you won't see on an unfired gun. Most collectors put a high premium on all aspects of a gun's state of preservation, so you can imagine what such signs of wear would do to its desirability and thus market value of an otherwise excellently-preserved example.

Fortunately for those of us who like to shoot, some good quality reproductions of antique flintlocks and other types of guns are made, and for the most part affordably priced, at least quite a bit less than an original in pristine original condition.

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