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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: wildmanoutdoors on December 13, 2010, 06:12:00 AM

Title: 1853 Kuchenreuter pin fire side by side for your viewing enjoyment
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on December 13, 2010, 06:12:00 AM: Below is a 1850's side by side I picked up from a friend. Its a metric size pin fire black powder shot gun made by J Adam Kuchenreuter of Belgium. These are hand made one at a time still. The Kuchenreuter's have been in biz since 1640 and made guns for Napoleon.
This gun has gold inlays and carved bone decorations behind the trigger guard and the barrel release lever.

Its purely a wall hanger for me but I thought y'all might like to see it since its so pretty. I have contacted Kuchenreuter as well Rock Island to have the gun valued.

Worth in Europe is 3 to 4 thousand pounds.

Enjoy the pics.
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Post by: krout81 on December 13, 2010, 06:21:25 AM: :o
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Post by: addicted on December 13, 2010, 06:53:47 AM: :o

g g g ga gorgeous
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Post by: FC on December 13, 2010, 11:31:20 AM: Beautiful shotgun there!
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Post by: NWBREW on December 13, 2010, 11:34:56 AM: :o That is one of the niciest guns I have seen in a very long time. Thanks for posting pics.
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Post by: rasbo on December 13, 2010, 11:47:00 AM: awesome work
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Post by: halflife65 on December 13, 2010, 11:49:28 AM: That thing is awesome. Way to go.
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Post by: kitsap on December 20, 2010, 07:09:43 AM: Thank you for sharing! Great pictures.

DougF