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I have in for sale a very odd Funk double shotgun made probably 1840's 1850's with a removable set of inline strikers. The bbls move forwards with the turn of a crank under the chambers. The chambers are like modern chambers but no space for rIMG_4070.jpgim. The strikers have had firing pins that moved through the breech. I need to figure out what this is worth for my customer to sell. I have several pictures.
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The gun was made by Gottfried Funk, Suhl, founded 1850. Later named Funk & Söhne (= & sons). By 1895 owned by Albert and Oskar Funk, 1914 by Gebhard Merkel and Ernst Funk, address Bahnhofstr. 23, Suhl.
The needle fire gun is made to the design of Rudolph Berger, Wallstr. 19, Koethen, Anhalt. Designed this gun 1859, using Albert Henry Marie Renette's 1820 slide and drop action. Berger, who had worked at the Gastinne – Renette, Paris, shop for some time in the 1840-50s. Berger combined Renette's capping breechloader breech action with his own coil spring striker locks, a simplification and improvement of Dreyse's needlefire locks. Berger made his guns to use paper needle fire cartridges of his own design, with the primer inside the base.
Though Berger had his gun patented in his German state, the Duchy of Anhalt-Koeten, such patents were not valid in other German states. So the Prussian Suhl gunmaker G. Funk was free to copy Berger's design. On this gun Funk still used Renette's steel "cups" on the standing breech as a gas seal instead of Berger's Chassepot type cushion gaskets.
"Any gun is worth as much as the next man, who cannot live without it, is willing and able to pay." -
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