Auction 79 - Live Saleroom Auction

The 79th auction will be held on Saturday, 30 September 2023 at 2.00 p.m. as a regular saleroom auction with audience in our  premises in Kirchheim unter Teck (Germany).

Viewing: Friday September 29 from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm and Saturday September 30 from 10.00 am to 1.30 pm.

The catalog and all lots are online. 

Bidding functions are activated, you can place bids or register for live bidding during the auction in our livestream.

The offer includes important historical collector's items and finest military antiques from all countries and periods.

In the auction section with important historical collector's items from 1933 - 1945, some important military awards, including some Knight's Cross and German Cross groupings will be offered.

The 5th auction of the auction house Thies & Schmid GmbH will be held shortly thereafter in October 2023 and will offer selected and important historical collector's firearms of the 18th - 19th century as well as rare military ordnance weapons of the 1st and 2nd World War.

Among the historical weapons are an important double-barrelled flintlock rifle from the personal possession of the French King Louis XVI and a pair of presentation pistols made by Jacques - Louis Arault in Versailles around 1765/74, dedicated by the then Dauphin (later King Louis XVI) to his page. Furthermore, we offer some very interesting Prussian and Austrian military ordnance weapons from the period of Frederick the Great, respectively Empress Maria Theresia.

One of the highlights of the firearms requiring a permit is the extremely rare carbine 98 from the Erfurt production of 1903 for MG troops in cal. 8 x 57mm IS (cartridge with pointed bullet) serial number 1106.

Some very rare sniper rifles of the 1st and 2nd World War also belong to the numerous top items of this auction.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.