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| Lot 702 | Price realised: $8,000 AUS |
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Description: Presentation Drilling presented to General Marshall Herman Goering, 16 x 16 x 9.5 cal., steel barrels with gold inlaid inscription 'EIN GESCHENK FÜR MEINEN FREUND, GENERAL MARSHALL GÖRING VON FRANZ SELDTE'. Minor amount of pitting to both barrels which have been restruck and reblued, hammer, top lever and back action locks marked JOS DAHL OSANBRUCK. An historically important sporting gun from a senior figure in the Third Reich hierachy, presented by Seldte, founder of the Stienhelm League for returned German servicemen after WW1, and a close friend and hunting companion of Göring's. |
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