September 10-12, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/11/2024
30" monobloc barrels with a broadway rib with steel bid bead and plastic front bead. Typical legends, including proofs for a 12 gauge with 3" magnum chambers, a nominal 18.7mm IBD, and an Ulm nitro proof dated KF for 1959. Threaded for Briley chokes, currently fit with Improved Cylinder in top barrel, Skeet I in bottom, and with 5 additional chokes: Full, Skeet I, Light Full, Modified, and another where the designation has rubbed off. Schnabeled forearm with Deely latch release, checkered in point pattern, with nickel plated exterior iron engraved with acanthus floral scroll on a punch dot background. Boxlock action with vignettes of pheasants in a wooded scene on left, ducks on right, and "KRIEGHOFF MODEL 32" on base, all in their own vignettes, supported by floral acanthus scrollwork on a punch dot background. Single, selective, LOP adjustable trigger. Buttstock of a nicely straight grained and fiddled walnut with sidepanels, pistol grip with point pattern checkering and palm swell on right side, adjustable comb, and Decelerator pad. With case for extra chokes, and a Krieghoff invoice indicating annual service in January 2024, including a new stock and forearm, K-80 Sport, No. 3, adjustable. CONDITION: Very good as restored. Barrels with a nicely executed reblack with some minor handling marks, a few of which have silvered. Stocks are very good with a few extremely minor marks, and an epoxy repair behind trigger guard. There is a small hairline crack in the tang on the left side of the safety slide. Trigger with gold wash lifting, and some lifting of plating to action with a few spots of oil staining. Mechanically fine, bores are very good, bright and shiny, with some minor frosting. Ejectors are strong, slightly out of time, top fires first.
Accessories
5 cased Briley choke tubes
Length of Pull
Adj., heavily cast off
Paperwork
Krieghoff Receipt