Extraordinary Firearms Auction, Day Two
Catalog Information: 505 lots with images | View lots
Date: October 6, 2010
Auction House:
Location:
203 Skowhegan Road
Fairfield, ME
USA
04937
Phone: 207 453 7125
Fax: 207 453 2502
Email: info@jamesdjulia.com
Viewing Notes:
Saturday, October 2, 10am-5pm; Sunday, October 3, 10am-5pm; Monday, October 4, 10am-5pm; Tuesday, October 5, 8-10am, Wednesday, October 6, 8-10am or by appointment.
Sale Notes:
This is indeed an auction of historic proportions. The diversity, quality, rarity and value offered in this presentation represents one of the finest auctions our firm or any firm has presented in many, many years. Session 1 will include The President Theodore Roosevelt Fox shotgun, which is probably the most historic and most valuable American shotgun ever offered at public sale. This gun and Theodore Roosevelt himself personified much of what is important to any sportsman or conservationist today and certainly should be considered a national treasure. Also included: Rare Class III arms; 20th century military arms; Modern arms from famous personage such as a Colt automatic and a guitar, etc., once the property of Hank Williams, Sr.; a pr. of holsters and rig used in one of Kevin Costner's early movies, Silverado; a number of guns from the famous actor David Carradine; the Roosevelt Fox shotgun; engraved Model 21 built for automobile magnate, Walter Chrysler; rare Marlin collection of the late Richard Rohal; 1972 vintage Russian MIG-21. Session 2 will include the David Crocker Coll.; Winchesters incl a pristine M1873 1 of 100 Rifle, perhaps the Finest Known and 20 Brass guns; Colts including two Texas Patersons; many presentation Colts; Martial SAAs; Henrys; Sharps; Kentucky rifles and early militia muskets and pistols, fine early cased flint and percussion arms; Civil War items including examples from the Fred Edmunds Coll.; very rare LeMats, a number of important Confederate pistols including Dance, Clark & Sherrard, Tucker & Sherrard, etc., Confederate and Union swords, presentation, rare slave tags, rare First National Confederate Flag "Victory or Death"; important historical items, an Adolph Hitler signed letter dated 1919; Wild Bill Hickok signed letter; Kit Carson signed letter; advertising items including Winchester & Remington; a very early scrimshawed powder horn and a 1973 Corvette L82 350 V-8 Coup. This will certainly be a spectacular sale with a tremendous diverse offering, much of which is fresh to the market and will certainly include items for just about any level of collector.
Lot 2000: SCARCE VOLCANIC NO. 2 NAVY SIZED LEVER ACTION PISTOL.
SN 1987. Cal. 41. Usual configuration with scarce 6" bbl with integral magazine tube, German silver pin front sight and a very light bbl roll-marking on top flat that has only the patent date and "NEW HAVEN CONN.". Brass frame is lightly engraved in [...more]
Lot 2001: EXTRAORDINARILY RARE VOLCANIC PISTOL CARBINE.
SN 50. Cal. 41. Very rare pistol/carbine with 16-1/2" oct bbl with integral magazine tube, pinched blade front sight and carbine rear sight on the frame with elevation adjusting wheel. Bbl address is three lines "THE VOLCANIC / REPEATING ARMS CO. / P [...more]
Lot 2002: RARE NEW HAVEN ARMS VOLCANIC CARBINE.
SN 141. Cal. 41. Rare carbine with 16-1/2" oct bbl with integral magazine, German silver front sight and receiver mounted rear sight with elevation adjustment wheel. Mounted with very nicely figured, slab sawed American walnut with crescent brass but [...more]
Lot 2003: NEW HAVEN ARMS ENGRAVED VOLCANIC CARBINE.
SN 68. Cal. 41. Fine Volcanic carbine with 16-1/2" oct bbl with integral magazine, German silver front sight and rear sight on top of frame. Sight elevation screw & wheel are missing. Mounted with an old replacement straight grain, uncheckered Americ [...more]
Lot 2004: EXTRAORDINARILY RARE & EXCEPTIONAL WINCHESTER 1ST MODEL 1873 "ONE OF ONE HUNDRED" LEVER ACTION RIFLE, THE FINEST OF ITS TYPE IN THE WORLD.
SN 19675. Cal. 44 WCF (44-40). Fantastic Winchester rifle with 24-1/4" oct bbl, full magazine with threaded plug, half nickel front sight, semi-buckhorn rear sight and early style thick base tang sight with spiral knurled bbl and duplex aperture. [...more]
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