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Incredibly Rare Austro-Hungarian Montigny Mitrailleuse Model 1851/65 Rapid Repeating 37-Shot Szorloveg Volley Gun with Carriage
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Incredibly Rare Austro-
Hungarian Montigny
Mitrailleuse Model
1851/65 Rapid Repeating
37-Shot Szorloveg Volley
Gun with Carriage - Serial
no. 84, 11 mm , 33 inch round
bbl., bright finish. This is an incredibly
rare 37-shot Austro-Hungarian Montigny
Mitrailleuse Szorloveg (“Spray Gun”, and/or
“Volley Gun”) Model 1851/65 manufactured by G. Sigl of Vienna, Austria. The Model 1851/65 was manufactured by OEWG Steyr for the Austrian Army in 1870, and by G. Sigl for the Hungarian Army in 1871, with only approximately 80 or more pieces reportedly made in total between the two companies (this example is numbered 84). This Austro- Hungarian Model 1851/65 is a licensed variant based off of the Montigny Mitrailleuse (translated “machine gun” or “grapeshot”), which was developed by the Belgian Engineer Joseph Montigny between 1859-1870 as an improved version of the Mitrailleuse, originally invented in 1851 by Belgian Captain Fafschamps as a 50-barrelled volley gun.
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