This crank-wound air pistol sold today at auction (Mander Auctioneers) with a hammer price of £980. It was the only air gun in the sale and was wrongly described in the title as “A 19th century French Flobert target air pistol”. Perhaps that was why there seemed to be few bidders.


Someone got a bargain – but not me unfortunately!

Or is the general opinion that this was all it was worth?