Singing bird pistols

[fernando]

Probably most of you guys already know these devices ... even also this clip.
But i can't resist posting it, as it is fantabulous :eek:


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http://www.youtube.com/embed/yf5_a_AXivM

[rickystl]

Hi Fernando. Thanks for Posting this. I've seen pictures of these pistols before, but not the video. I seem to recall these pistols went to Auctio a couple years ago (?). I wonder what Christie's sold them for? :eek:
Thanks again for Posting. Rick.

[Matchlock]

Extremely curious indeed, 'Nando and Rick,

I am sure they were never included in a regular Christie's A&A sale, as I have almost all their (and Sotheby's) catalogs way back from the early 1900's till today. So they must have been part of another sales category (jewelry?).

Best,
m

[Gavin Nugent]

An interesting and outstanding piece of art.

I see the department selling these was the watch department, no doubt because of the fine watch-like automation involved in the mechanisms, likely the same department previously.

Outstanding!

Gav

[David]

hmmm....i suppose that they can kill you with their beauty... ;)