.. Here is one more update from Old Europe on vintage guns,rifles, accessories,
related and unrelated matters ....
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A. K & K times up to 1918
K& K is an abbreviation for Kaiserlich & Koeniglich (translates to Imperial and Royal).
JSE had in their december silent auction more than 1200 lots.
I believe this high volume is triggered by the december 13 due date for the mandatory
registration of shotguns acquired before october 2012 and thus up-to-now unregistered.
This is the Austrian implementation of the EU Waffenrichtlinie invented after the
Bataclan massacre, which reputedly has been done with 3 matched pairs of vintage
Holland Royal Selfopeners and not with AK's.
Shotguns during the time of the Russian occupation of Eastern Austria were free
and unregistered.
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Guns/rifle
Here are 3 nice examples from this auction.
- J. Heinige /Vienna hammergun
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67037- E. Egerth / Pisek / Czechia hammer gun
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67038- J. Springer's Erben / Vienna double bore hammer rifle in 500 BPE
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67039The last one is worthwile to have a detail look.
I have included the 1897-page from the JSE archive.
It tells sold to a Prinz Matthias Radziwill.
This page has an impressive list of JSE customers, in todays jargon key-accounts.
It starts with Fuerst Stanislaus Lubomirski,
/this Polish aristoclan has been JSE largest customer ordering a total of
34 weapons/
followed by Miecislaw Kosielski,
then this Prinz Radziwill,
Kaiser (emperor) Franz Josef,
Fuerst Stefan Lubomirski,
Grossfuerst Wladislaus von Russland.
But all of that is history. 124 years later and todays reality, its a lot
in a silent auction.
Page from JSE archive
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67207Radziwill line
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67208....
Gavin Gardiner had in his last auction a pair of JSE 16 bore Anson
estimated at 800-1200 GBP, hammerprice 2200 GBP.
Built in 1905 for count Heinrich Hoyos.
I have asked a trade-profi if one of the dozens of Hoyos descendants will
buy his ancestors pair. His answer. Present days Hoyos drive a Range-Rover
for 70 KE and hunt with a Beretta discounted to 1,5 KE.
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B. Accessories
A huge batch of leatherware in this auction
- guncases
. my preferred long/stiff ones
. typical Austrian compact ones with cover-flaps on both sides either in
leather or canvas
Looking at the labels contained therein some must have been laying around unused for at least
a century.
A JSE label with historic Stock-im-Eisen address, on the outside of the case a
luggage label from the K&K Donauschiffahrts-Gesellschaft with
"from" address Orsova ( Romania) and "to" address Lom-Palanka (Bulgaria).
The owner used the Danube ship for his hunting trip from Romania
to Bulgaria.
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Historic JSE label
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67070Luggage label
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67043A rare case label of Albert Staehle
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67040---
JSE cartridge magazine
This is an all-leather model, without wooden frame, a JSE specific, with liftout straps,
the corners stitched together.
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67069http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67044 ...
How about completed staffwork and a history excursion:
To whom did this vintage catridge magazine belong ?
Possibly to Exc. Ing. K. Marek who got a pair of JSE H&H C16
numbered 10147/10148 in 1914,
which would match also the internal K&K stamp pre 1918.
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C. Post 1918 times ..
The late 1920's and 1930's have been JSE golden years, his only competitor Kalezky
phasing out gradually.
Here are 3 examples of this time, all delivered to JSE agents in
US/NY/Lengerke&Detmold or
Poland/Lvov/Dmytrach ( today named Lviv/Ukraine, named Lemberg in K&K pre-1918 times)
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Von Lengerke&Detmold label
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67119...
Eustacy Dmytrach label -
Courtesy Piotr J.Bochynski / He is the author of an article on Eustacy Dmytrach in
the Polish magazine Strzal 4-5/2012
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67118...
JSE pigeon gun with WJN-ligature mark / to US/NY
It has been the mark of William J. Nittler / Origin of
mark clarified in this forum
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67210http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67209...
This is a JSE Vienna-Best gun, went 1925 to Lengerke/NY,
Original barrel length of 663 mm as per Vienna proofhouse records,
my free-hand photos dont do full justice to this beauty,
with a fiddle-back medium brown coloured English stock,
original colour hardening as per gunsmith-profi,
In a superb JSE oak& leather case, the leather with this
not-imitable "Vienna vintage blond",
immaculate canvas cover
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http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67261http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67262...
JSE hunting gun nr. 1 of a pair, originally to Dmytrach/Poland.
Now sleeved barrels with LP 94, recoloured action.
Nr. 2 has been with a wellknown Austrian hunter (+1988).
The pair has left Poland well before the German invasion of 1939.
Tracking down the where abouts of nr. 2 is one of these cumbersome
reuniting exercises. Reputedly last owner a very sick man under the
care and control of a Polish nurse.
Possibly nr. 2 has found its way already back to its first destination.
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67120.....
The last JSE pair I recall has been sold in US for 20 K$
by a dealer operating in the top tier of the market.
The pair originally belonged to the foreign-minister of the last
Romanian king, He took the pair with him when he fled
the country before the approaching red army.
All barrels full choke, typical tool for the hare-battles in
former Eastern Europe.
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D. Any hunting in 2021 ? Oh yes.
After a completely dry 2020 season due to corona and listening to the
experts that we will face a severe november, I took the chance and celebrated Austria's
national holiday oct 26 at a pheasant shoot in Hungary.
A place near Suemegh, 2 hours drive from Vienna, open borders.
A sunny day in the Puszta plains, a jovial wellcome by theJagdleiter, who
has used the dry 2020 season to learn German.
With an alfresco-lunch, challenging overhead shots in a narrow
forest-aisle, all well done by the Magyars.
No lunatic anti would dare to show up there and disturb the hunt.
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The hornblowers - always signaling the begin of a drive
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67003Brace of Magyar Viszlas
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67004The castle of Suemegh
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/67121E. What does the future hold ?
- The JSE owner/manager invited me to have a look on his new/inhouse built
sidelock-gun, which would be then nr. 10663.
Lets wait and see. Seeing the fate of the British restarts,
I am curious to see if he can manage it better than the Brits.
F. What else does the future hold ?
Then there is Gottlieb Koethe - owner/manager of Lechner & Jungl in
the Styrian capital Graz.
His company founded in 1821 as iron-mongers.
He is building a Boss style over-under in 20 bore, DT, no joke.
No parts ex UK, Germany or Bella Italia, no CNC, all done
inhouse the Robertson way, simply toiling a the bench.
He has affluent customers, a lady-shot travelling with her
pair of L&J 20-bores in her private jet to a grouse shoot
in Scotland.
The Boss if for another lady-shot.
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G What does the presence hold ?
An exploding magnum corona wave nr. 4, detto lockdown nr. 4.
Not only here but also in neighbouring Merkel-Land.
Triage is happening
IT IS A SHAME...
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Stay healthy and cheers.
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F.N.
