Singing Bird Pistols

submitted by geo321
1 decade 3 years 5 months 4 weeks ago
Aurel Bacs, International Head of the Watch Department, shares his passion and knowledge of the only known matching pair of gold and enamel singing bird pistols, to be offered at Christie’s Hong Kong Important Watches sale on 30 May 2011. Among the most valuable and important works of art remaining in private hands, the value and ingenuity of these pistols are beyond description and must be seen and heard to be truly appreciated.-Christie's

19 Comments

Ryjkyjsays...

I just can't support the idea of toy guns. What happens when a dumb kid sees this, and then tries to get the bird to come out of his dad's pistol? BOOM! Brains everywhere, and for what? Posting this video is tantamount to child abuse.

spoco2says...

These are stunning pieces of engineering and art, but I have to agree with @Ryjkyj, turning a 'gun' into toy is a scary thing thinking of what may happen with a child.

Of course, you could say the same thing about actual toy guns, of which toy shops have whole isles devoted to.

All the more reason to just not have real guns anywhere that kids can ever get them.

I'm now 34, and I've only been in the presence of a real gun once in my life (other than in museums and the holstered guns of police), and that was my uncle's rifle on his farm. Happy to be in a country where they are just not prevalent.

spoco2says...

>> ^geo321:

I don't know if these were designed for children as toys. To be a kid in 1820 Geneva, being given a set of solid gold guns laced with diamonds and pearls.


No, of course they weren't made for kids. But the adult's who owned them would have shown them to kids. Then the kids would associate shooting a gun with a pretty bird coming out and singing. If they then saw a real gun they could be forgiven for thinking that's what would happen if they shot that.

geo321says...

... >> ^spoco2:

>> ^geo321:
I don't know if these were designed for children as toys. To be a kid in 1820 Geneva, being given a set of solid gold guns laced with diamonds and pearls.

No, of course they weren't made for kids. But the adult's who owned them would have shown them to kids. Then the kids would associate shooting a gun with a pretty bird coming out and singing. If they then saw a real gun they could be forgiven for thinking that's what would happen if they shot that.

GDGDsays...

I was shown toy guns. I knew real guns killed. I was not even a teenager yet.

It is not the engineers who make the guns, real or toy. It is not our gun laws, relaxed or too strict. It is negligence, ignorance, and parenting that are responsible for accidents.

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