Fall 2025 Premier Firearms & Militaria Auction
October 30th, 31st, November 1st, & 2nd, 2025
This auction will feature an outstanding collection of items spanning multiple categories including Modern, Military, Sporting, & Antique firearms & militaria! Below is just a small grouping of select highlights from the massive offering to be featured in this upcoming sale!
BEAUTIFULLY RELIEF ENGRAVED ITALIAN SNAPHAUNCE BELT PISTOL
01-26953
Cal. 50.
S# NSN.
The 10-3/8″ octagon to round barrel is deeply relief engraved at breech end with portrait of a warrior wearing helmet. Transitional lock with snaphaunce type frizzen and miquelet type internals is fitted with serpentine cock and inset rounded pan with sliding cover. Lock is beautifully relief carved with three quarter figure of a man at rear, along with another man in front of cock with scrolls that terminate in serpents head. Cock is carved with relief scrolls and head of pivot bolt has grotesque face. Body of pan has relief scroll. Sliding cover has button with another grotesque face. Similar decoration graces the early style frizzen. Many of the internals are file decorated and part of a possible maker’s name “Bvemio” (?) is engraved on lockplate. Trigger is relief carved. Stock which extends to muzzle and is pinned to barrel appears to be of olive wood and is also raised carved with scrolls and mouldings. Steel furniture continues this incredible relief metal carving with grip cap having long spurs decorated with grotesque faces on sides flanked by cherubs blowing horns. Trigger guard has obvious female figure on bow and foliate pierced finial. Scrolled and pierced sideplate shows more human figures and serpent heads. Crest plate is also embellished with more grotesque figures and Green Man’s mask. Olive wood ramrod with horn tip and steel worm on tail mounts through matching relief carved pipe and thimble. A belt hook with nicely carved finial is mounted on left side.
STATUS: ANTIQUE.
