Prototype pistols lead $5.3m firearms sale
SPECIALIST firearms saleroom, Rock Island Auctions of Moline, Illinois, sold over 2800 lots for a total of $5.3m (£3m) in their April 17-19 event. Among the higher priced weapons were three prototype or experimental pistols by Mauser and Walther.
Sold for $75,000 (£42,370) was the only known example of a prototype Mauser model 1909-1912/1914 aut…