Product Details
VENUS WAFFENWERK, GERMANY
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE BOXED .177 BREAK-BARREL AIR-PISTOL, MODEL 'TELL 3', serial no. 406,
one of only approximately 50 produced between 1936-1940, with round tapering 5in. barrel marked 'KAL 4.5mm' over 'CAL .177', blued air-chamber stamped 'VENUS WAFFENWERK ZELLA-MEHLIS' over 'MADE IN GERMANY' on the left hand side, articulated flush-fitting blued cocking link laying along the top of cylinder and stamped 'TELL 3' together with a depiction of a man holding a break-barrel air-rifle above an apple, dove-tailed blade fore-sight, elevating rear-sight, blued frame with brown mottled chequered bakelite one-piece grip, both sides of grip inlet with red and gold 'TELL' trademark medallions (slight speckling to the blued finish from storage but much finish throughout) together with its makers black crocodile skin effect card carton, the lid embossed with the Tell trademark, a silhouette of the pistol and the wording 'TELL 3' in gothic script, all picked out in gilt (lid corners gone), the interior of box lid with pink pasted instruction label in German, English and French overstamped with a retailer's stamp 'F. KAISER, BUCHSENMACHER, KLAGENFURT', the tray with pale blue card compartments and including a period tin for pellets and the original cleaning rod, some scuffs and tears
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Estimate £1,000-2,000