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Original Holek Automat – Scarce Interwar Czechoslovak Hunting Rifle Catalogue
Original “Holek” automat. [The Original “Holek” Automatic Rifle]. [Brno, ca. 1930s]. Oblong (29.5 × 12.5 cm). Unpaginated, 16 pp. Original illustrated card wrappers, string-bound with green cord. VG condition.
Scarce promotional and technical catalogue for the Holek gas-operated semiautomatic hunting rifle, illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams showing the rifle, its component parts, operation, disassembly, and configurations, including an English-style stock and a model fitted with a Kahles 2½× telescopic sight. Attractive modernist design combining photography, green rules, sans-serif typography, and stylized hunting motifs.With an original contemporary German-language promotional leaflet, cut into two sections and laid in, giving technical specifications and identifying the manufacturer as Johann Trnka, Spezielle Waffenwerkstätten, Brno-Juliánov.
Very good condition.
Inv. BX9