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...


Last edited by felix; 04/06/17 11:13 AM.