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Single Shot 10mm of sorts from Circa 1860.









Antonin Sekera in Prague-Karlin-Berenger Action(Given as..)

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

That is interesting looking.

Can you tell us a bit more about it? What caliber? What is that hammer striking. Not sure what sort of rifle this is, but does it use a cartridge, or is this like Breecher's Bible?

For the moment, I'll point you to some translated text & the website, then I'll dig a bit....


>>The blued barrel (sligtly pitted) with rifled bore in 10 mm calibre consists of three parts, polygonal between two octagonal parts. Top of the barrel signed in gold "A. Sekera in Prag". Iron rear sight and silver and iron front sight. An iron frame engraved with floral and figural motifs, provided with a revolving powder chamber with pivotable locking block and release lever which, when rotated in a transverse position, allows rifle loading. An interior firing pin. Nicely carved walnut stock in two parts with iron mounts engraved en suite, the trigger guard with horn finger rest. Bohemia, Prague circa 1860, length 108 cm. Antonin Sekera known in Prague-Karlin between 1859 - 1862.<<


https://eaukce.antiques-auctions.eu...rifle-by-antonin-sekera-berenger-action/

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Ole Beatus Beringer.......

https://issuu.com/armscavalcade/docs/armscavalcade_2020/s/11135227




>>“loading percussion rifl e by Karl Haberda”

In 2017 in another auction at Czerny’s in Italy a Beringer System Breech loading percussion rifle by Karl Haberda was sold. The rifle was described as octagonal, micro rifled, 8 mm cal. barrel signed in silver “KARL HABERDA IN KRUMAU”, provided with a chiselled, iron rear sight, and silver and iron front sight; iron frame engraved with floral motif, provided with a revolving powder chamber which, when rotated in a transverse position, allows rifle loading. The stock was in two parts with a micro-checkered grip, iron mounts engraved en-suite, tang and trigger guard (which also serves as an opening lever of the power chamber) chiselled with bas-relief steinbock and wild boar and an iron ramrod. Johann Haberda in Krumau, was a gunsmith of Price Schwarzenberg, and probably a relative.

The photo from the Czerny’s catalogue is illustrated. The rifle was described as from Bohemia, in the third quarter of the 19th Century.

My redirected research, found Beatus Beringer was born in 1801 in Hangenbieten in the Bas-Rhin department or region of North Eastern France. He worked in Paris and St Etienne 1835-1869.

At an early age of shooting and designing, he sought to remedy hunters’ complaints of “inconveniences” of the early gun locks and studied the nature of fulminating powders. In 1832 he patented his gun action charged with fulminating powder. The powder being encapsulated in a small moulded, red copper, flexible capsule.<<


Serbus,

Raimey
rse