Mauritz Widforss welcomes you to Vapen, jakt och militaria – Arms, Hunting and Militaria!
For collectors and historians alike, there is extraordinary quality, detail and provenance to explore here. An auction comprising 190 lots offers rifles, pistols and edged weapons as well as accessories and curiosities. Among the latter, a lot of Japanese Menuki, an Ottoman flint-knapping hammer and a Moroccan powder horn are on offer.
And if this introduction is to highlight a few of the auction's true highlights, here are three such examples. Prince Adolf's hunting rifle with a gilded signature on the barrels – CHASTEAU A PARIS RUE DES S.TS PERES – and engraved on both locks CHASTEAU A PARIS RUE DES S.TS PERE.
A Swedish cavalry sword from around 1700 with inlaid letters in the fuller. And then the pair of Carolingian flintlock pistols, crafted by Pieter Starbus, who at Karl XI's own initiative was summoned to Sweden from Amsterdam.
A warm welcome to Mauritz Widforss!
