Is this triple-barrel firearm a treasure, or dirt?

[JohnM]

Doesn't matter what the smooth bore gauge and rifle barrel are. Or whether it happens to be Damascus steel or not.
That is a fine example of an old Drilling and needs to be researched to learn its true value.

It's too bad you're so far away from here, a good friend of mine specializes in those guns and could probably identify it right off.

 

[Toml]

Actually, I think Post #19 nailed it. And these things matter.

 

[bushmaster1313]

If the engraving is by Rudolph Kornbrath that could easily be a $10,000 gun

 

[Toml]

Or perhaps by his contemporary, Joseph Fugger. From a quick Google Search: Fugger's animals are more often than not full bodies, whereas, Kornbrath's are more often than not---at least as far as gold inlays are concerned---head and shoulders.

 

[akodo]

$2000 is what the conversation should be centered around...$2000 to a dealer who will then sell it for $3000 to an antique firearm dealer who will then research it price it at $5000-$15,000 and take the effort to find a collector who wants it, who will happily pay that.

 

[Matt304]

My friend that was with him had googled what the stamp said, he went to his history, we think he might, the owner that is, have possibly already ripped himself off. No replies now but it's family time approaching. He googled: Jar landaur munchen (top of gun) he just texted me. The guys are local that wanted it so he may be desperately trying to get it back, who knows. But that's the best I can do right now.

 

[EmbarkChief]

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

 

[vaupet]

There were a lot of Landauer people in the munich area, some of them gotten famous, most were jewisch.

I do hope the new owner has a little more common sense to preserve a fine firearm for the future, remember, we don't own things, we get to keep them for the future.

Someone has gotten himself a hell of a deal

 

[Toml]

I found an article that mentioned Joseph Fugger in an old True magazine this weekend. His engraving added $ 1,500 to the cost of a $ 2,000 double rifle in 1957.