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Thanks to Moose Snoot of Sweden.

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Prologue: I want to confirm here that I have no family-ties
nor any association with the Springer-family/company
of Vienna
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Enough is enough of this necrological sentiment for these bygone
gunmakers Franz Neuber & Sohn from Wiener Neustadt and Johann
Kalezky's Witwe from Wien.
What does the future hold ?
There still exists Johann Springer's Erben from Wien.
The present owner has 6 kids between 2 months and 20 years, so still a long way for him to go. When he took over the company from his mother a couple of years ago, he was aware that he can not
make a living on building high end guns.
If you observe the 3 big Londoners, the picture is not very different. Boss has the 4th owner within 16 years, the MTBS (mean-time-between-sacking)-rate of a Holland-CEO has now stabilized
and Purdey after having abandoned the used-gun sector
has now returned to it.
And an English dealer told me some time ago that they all
make a loss.
But there is Nick Holt's auctionshop running well.
Springer started as a sub to Nick, but soon realized that
there may be more in this business segment and opened his own
auctionhouse.
And now the Brexit-decision has happened.
I have full sympathy for the English buccaneers - after having
defeated the Spanish armada, the French at Trafalgar and
finally twice the Germans ( with a little help from their
transatlantic cousins)- for not willing to be ruled by someone
from overseas Europe and even worse from Berlin.
One of the 2 Brexit-clowns - this old chap with the
wild blond-coloured tuft of hair -
went immediately to the Sultan of Ankara and came back with the message that he reached already a jumbo-deal with him.
Can we expect now that the
Purdey Sporter is sourced in future from Erzurum in Eastern
Anatolia instead of the Italian Brescia ?
My impression is that Brexit is a booster for Springer's auction
shop. I had a chat there with 2 Americans, one of them dealer/
collector, I have seen half-a-bus of Czech visitors at his
viewing room. An Italian high-end pair sold to US, a complete
Parabellum collection from outside Austria in the last auction.
The collection of 2 friends of mine ended up there....
economy is a question of trust/confidence...why to send stuff to the Brexit-country when the currency gurus are telling that the GBP will go below 1:1 and its more secure and comfortable
just a taxi-drive away....
What I like with his auctions is the silent/sealed-bid part,
a fabulous "flea"-market. In there always an heartwarming
item.
The last one had a Ferlach-made O/U, with nice engraving,
12 bore 2 3/4 proof, good barrel-thicknesses (measured
by me) and this solid and tight Kersten+double-under-bolt
system. At a ridiculous next-to-nothing price.
All in need for a strip-clean-oil.
Another example has been a Belgian boxlock with a Polish
retailer name in crisp/near-new state.
Having engineering background I am always amazed to see
how technicalities are either a negligeable
matter or do not count at all.
You may ask me why then I am sticking to a Purdey from 1902.
Its simply a matter of beauty & "gun-holder-value" (resale-value is such an ugly word) - which is ruled like lady's fashion by social
perception and not by inherent technicalities.
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Epilogue:
There is glorious America, at the moment an offering of a
Springer sidelock gun-pair for 28000 US-$, given its origin something for a member of the Romanian diaspora in the US.
A sideplated Springer boxlock double rifle in original case for 24000 US-$.
Bonhams has in the next auction a Springer double rifle at estimated min. 9000 GBP -> ca 14000 Euro incl.
Final: I have serious doubts that anyone of the finance-
sharks who have bought these 3 Londoners will
ever consider to
open an auction-house under the gunmaker-brand-name he
has bought.







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A Kalezky 20 bore from 1916 in an Russian Internet forum.
Location southern Russian town of Krasnodar.
For the first time seen with the Witwe script on the sidelock-plate.
Witwe script and Poldi anticorro script on the barrel
look genuine.
Unusual the backsight on a shotgun.
I remember that during the time of the Russian occupation
of eastern Austria from 1945 to 1955 rifled barrels were prohibited.
I doubt that Kalezky delivered a shotgun during WW I/1916
to an enemy-country.
The history of rifle-barrel prohibition in Russia is not
known to me , but I guess that someone added the backsight to
this shotgun to have it more suitable also for slug-shooting.
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/51462
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Another Kalezky sidelock drilling
..All photos courtesy Joh. Springer's Erben/auction-shop...
This time emerged in Springer/Vienna auction april 20 lot 159.
Their gunsmith kindly disassemblied it so I could take
photos on the internal mechanism.
It has sidelocks plus a trigger-plate based lock for
the rifle barrel ("Blitz-Schloss"),Kalezky serial nr. is
2469, shotgun-barrels are 16/65 above rifle-barrel
of 6,5x58R.
A rare case, as aristo-provenance is known this time.
Year of proof is 1912, the one from
the first post in this thread same year of proof and
Kalezky serial nr. is 2517.
Photos:
The pair of sidelocks, no signature visible internally.
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/51605
Internal mechanism
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/51606
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/51607
Backside of the action ("Baskül")
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/51608
For comparison Kalezky-lock to Merkel-303 lock
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/51609
Nicely engraved crosspin and lockplate-screw
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/51610
Stock - cracked - with barrel-switch and partial view
of the crisp/perfect inlaying of the spring-areas within
the stock
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/51611
.....
For any stocking-interested guru:
Hans Jiricek, who few minutes ago told me that he
"plans to retire" at his 90th birthday, uses to fix/repair
a crack like above using "Kornell-Kirsche"-wood
(lat. cornus mas/vulgo-name "Dirndl") in a tongue-and-groove (in German:Nut-und-Feder) approach as usual in cabinet-making.
This is a wild-fruit tree, with its yellow flowers already beginning march the first spring-time messenger, normally a multiple-trunk shrub, very slowly growing,
with the highest strength-values of middle-European woods...


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A Kalezky curiosity.
..Photo courtesy Joh. Springer's Erben..
It is a combo, pre 1870,with the wording of "Anton Mulacz"
on the barrel - a court supplier - and the curious
"KALLEZKI" wording on the lock-plate.
I have no clue on this wording.
From a linguistic point this looks rather like an
Italian name with the double "LL" and the ending letter "I".
However the other lockplate has the wording "IN WIEN".
Felix Neuberger
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The Kalezky sidelock drilling finally sold like a previously mentioned sidelock combo to a gunmaker in a neighbouring country.
So with a new stock for the drilling and scopes , both
weapons will get a new lease of life.
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Mr. Peter Grünauer, bookbinder, witty and sarcastic Viennese
gentleman, has passed away suddenly. He made for me the Kalezky-repro-guncase-label, featuring below. He had the old typeset incl. the imperial eagle,
did the work on his vintage press, had French leather as base
and as well the necessary gold-foil.
As his son is an engineer in the oil-industry, one more old
trade to vanish from down-town Vienna.
The repro-label
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/53465
Original one from moth-eaten guncase
http://www.jpgbox.com/page/51003
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Felix Neuberger

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