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Continuing our series of articles dedicated to covering the major American firearm auctions, today we’ll take a look at some of the most interesting, rare and unusual guns seen in the online catalog of the upcoming October 2019 Morphy Extraordinary, Sporting & Collector Firearms Auction. As usual, the Morphy auction catalog includes dozens of such firearms and the list you’ll find below is merely what this author picked from the plethora of unique pieces of firearms engineering and history consigned to the auction. The list goes in no particular order and the names of the lots are linked to corresponding Morphy Auction pages where you can find more detailed descriptions as well as more and higher resolution images. At the end of each lot description, you can see the estimated price range that the auction house predicts each of the lots to be sold at.

By this point, it’s impossible to hide my affinity for early selfloading rifles, and today we have another great video from Forgotten Weapons on an early Italian model that made it all the way to adoption. Though the program was cancelled before it could be produced, the Armaguerra Model 1939 rifle is still an important piece of Italian firearms history. You can learn more about it in Ian’s video embedded below: