It has 4 rifle barrels in a half-circle above a 16 gauge shotgun. Calibers from left to right are 9.3x82R, followed by two in 9.1x52R, and finally a 11x74R over the 16 gauge shotgun.

Mike, Most Interesting. Just because they could, I guess.
How about a shot of the trigger/selector mechanism please.

When your government has too much to say about how many guns you can own....

Best,
Ted

Sure it would have made a great stagecoach gun! I would have felt better with that than just a double.

The selectors are those ears in front of the firing pins.

I am pleased that it was not me who was given the task of regulating the rifle barrels.

I agree bushveld. How hard would it be to load a rifle round with a pocket full of cartridges in 3 different calibers?

Someone sent me this.

Good thing they put a 16 gauge barrel in the middle, instead of a 12.

Sure would be heavy if it was a 12.

Best,
Ted

Very nice piece of workmanship and some history to go along with it. Thanks for sharing.

Could you please show the breech face on how it was designed.

At least itcovered a lot of uses. All the way from small deer to large deer.

Contraption

No photos have been posted of the breach face.

Mike;

Re your third photo: Is there a crack in the firing pin bolster of right side where the firing pin retaining screw is located?

Regards;
Stephen Howell

Be fair, you could also use the shot barrel for snipe and quail if you have very strong arms.

That's what I see bushveld.

This is the only Funflinge I ever heard of no wonder it was in a museum.
Mike

muzzles of the rifle barrels appear to be octagonal (?) bores....four large lands and grooves (similar to enfield/snider?) on the first three tubes....and the fourth barrel has six quite small lands with much broader grooves.

guess they ran out of matching blanks for this bizarre exercise...thanks for letting us look mike.

best regards,

tom

Whoever put it together likely didn't make the barrels, but bought them from a specialist barrel maker and may have had one or more in stock from other jobs.
Mike

By definition, a true Grande Complication / Mechanical Contrivance. Looks to be 100% Peter Oberhammer design and I am not sure if he or his crew made it, but it wears all the hallmarks.. If you look about 3/4s of the way down(right below the rotating Mauser) you will find an artikel on a vierling( Ein vierläuflges Gewehr von Oberhammer ) but I guess Peter Oberhammer just scaled it a bit more.

https://www.germanhuntingguns.com/archives/oberhammer-peter-of-munich/

https://oberhammer-jagd.de/

I do wonder about the chamberings if they are in-fact correct?

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Upon reflection, I think it was made by Collath.

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

I don't see Collath which used a "slide and tip" locking and this is a traditional Jones underlever " tipping" locking. Two locks and two triggers for 5 barrels is decidedly not traditional, however. I can see firing 4 barrels, but the 5th barrel doesn't seem to be covered by his patent (patent for two barrels with one lock and one trigger, a 5th barrel would need 3 barrels with one lock and one trigger).

Thats an incredible machine. How much were they asking?

I think it sold for around $20,000

I like the term 'liberated' from a museum!!!!! Lagopus.....

I saw one about 30 years ago at a gunshow at the UConn campus in Danbury CT.

Going on memory here so not sure if it was for sale or not. I am certain it had a Dural frame, the owner said for weight saving.

If I remember correctly it had a SxS, probably 16ga, a large caliber rile underneath, a small caliber centerfire barrel on the right side between the right shotgun barrel and the large caliber rifle, and a .22lr that went down a hollow rib. Internal hammers.

Before the days of camera phones so I didn't get a pic.

Recoil Rob,
I never heard of such a gun, but if I were trying to track it down, I would look for an Ernst Kerner gun built on a Meffert Dural frame. He is known to have built Vierlings on Meffert Dural frames. He was a son in law of The Mefferts and son of well-known Emil Kerner, consequently had access to Dural frames as well as the technical curiosity to work out the problems with the hammers/triggers/selectors. Also, his drillings/vierlings were often built on Blitz system, so were not limited to two hammers. Thanks for the info.
Mike

Mike,

The owner called it a "Funfling".

I actually have an Emil Kerner 16ga SxS, little wand of a gun, 29"bbls and weighs about 5lbs 8oz.