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I am looking closely at a very nice collection of guns which include what appear to be a few very rare collectible guns. Is this the best forum to post?
One is a Napoleon Bonaparte Double Barrel Shotgun - Beautiful condition with it's own lighted case - Leige Barrels - I have a picture - appears very similar to the one in the National Rifle Museum.
Also a two gun set of I Andreas Kuchenreuters Bouble barrel percussion pieces by Heinrick Ebert of Vienna - Royal weapon made for Court Trautson as certified by Kensthistorisches Museum of Austria. Crown with nine pearls. Serial #1 and #2, an exquisite work of art of the highest order - magnificent custom "cripple-stock" most rare, Reputed to have been in the collection of King Christian 8 of Denmark
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Depends on your motive for posting. Pictures are a must.
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It's a doublegun interest forum and what you're looking at are doubles, so provisionally it seems like a good fit although the first 45 of us Looky Lous don't appear to be the audience you're searching for. Certainly there must be someone here conversant with these antiquities and she will be along sooner or later. Welcome aboard.
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Welcome. I'll be interested in the photos and any discussion. I do antiques, but not quite that antique or aristocratic. I, too, hope some learned discussers show up.
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Unequivocally, this is a best forum in which to post. Is the Napoleon Bonaparte scattergun a flintlock or percussion? Heinrich Ebert of Wien & Johann Andreas I(1822-1898) were both active in the 1840s and Heinrich Ebert may have hung his shingle out as early as circa 1820. And there was a Andreas Jacob Kuchenreuter active at the beginning of the 19th Century. The Kuchenreuters of Regensburg have a gunmaking dynasty that is all but unparalleled in Germany reaching back uninterrupted to the late 1600s. They had a reputation for fine tubes and I would guess the tubes of the pistols were sourced from Johann Andreas I with Heinrich Ebert being the wholesaler. The King of Austria, Bavaria along with Napoleon and Tsars are found in their order books. Dr. Dirk Gotschmann of the University of Regensburg has penned 2 books while the descendents of Johann Kuchenreuter hail from Cham in the Bavarian Forest being about 80 km East of Regensburg.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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Raimey,
This is Off Topic but thanks to you I now know that a favorite marine painter of mine, Anton Perko, was nothing less than a Kammer-Lieferant, together with viennese gunmaker Johann Springer's Erben and only 17 others. Perko was born in a village some twenty miles from where I live, same village that I plan to go hunting wild boar when the first snow comes; what a small world.
With kind regards,
Jani
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Trying to post images for the first time so I hope this works, I have minimal information at this time on the believed to be Napoleon Bonaparte Double Barrel shotgun. I do know it was once appraised for a fairly high value and is it described in their inventory list as in beautiful condition (will try and get more information) . Here is a picture...  The information I have at this time regarding the I Andreas Kuchenreuters is as listed above. "Bouble barrel percussion pieces by Heinrick Ebert of Vienna - Royal weapon made for Court Trautson as certified by Kensthistorisches Museum of Austria. Crown with nine pearls. Serial #1 and #2, an exquisite work of art of the highest order - magnificent custom "cripple-stock" most rare, Reputed to have been in the collection of King Christian 8 of Denmark" Again, I am attempting to get more information. Here is an image of these guns. 
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Was Napoleon left-handed? A short internet journey seems to agree.
Cheers,
Jani
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Jani:
It might be a slight stretch, but I think anyone on the k.u.k. Lieferent list would be on topic for the specific purpose of developing an idea of the overall sourcing by the Royal Courts and putting the k.u.k. gunmakers into perspective. I'm most pleased to see that someone finds the verbiage I post useful and I hope to one day visit some of the areas where k.u.k. folks hailed from.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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