Clockwork Singing Bird Pistols sell for $5.8 mil
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Posted on: 2011-06-03 09:27 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Those things were done in 1820!? O.o
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These are awesome.
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Gorgeous work. The detailing on the pistols themselves is staggering, but the engineering that went into the bird blows my mind.
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Wow. Wow. $5.8 mil seems kinda steep even though they are gorgeous.
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Just imagine what the geniuses that made those pistols could do with todays technology at their disposal.
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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
The complexity of electronics today is staggering, but it still pales to what the master artists could do with mechanics and scale.
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Aaaand I posted this on Facebook - I had no idea this sort of thing was possible! The wonderful thing is the more people know about how stuff work, the more their minds should be blown (I've got one friend in particular who, using that logic, should be completely and utterly dumbfounded).
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Nuclear singing birds!
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Just imagine what the geniuses that made those pistols could do with todays technology at their disposal.
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When nemesis adds dual-pistols to their legions, one of the attacks must have tiny mechanical birds pop out of the barrel. |
Originally Posted by MentalMaden
Oh yeah, this has to be a Nemesis plot.
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It can be a stun or confuse attack.
As far as "reloading" the birds: I'd guess that's what the second hammer is for. The birds look far too delicate to be grabbing them and stuffing them back in. (Aside from the chance of crushing or twisting some part of the mechanism, the feathers would never survive more than a few reloads before they started to come apart.) And given the high degree of craftsmanship on the rest of the piece, I'd be willing to bet that it is designed so that the bird never needs to be touched directly.
In the spirit of the recently released Steampunk pack, this video depicting a real-life clockwork treasure is sure to intrigue. These singing-bird pistols (artwork, not actual working firearms) were sold at auction last weekend by Christie's, the famous international auction house, for $5.8 million. These are truly works of art and I think the buyer got his money's worth.
http://www.christies.com/singing-bir...en-1422-3.aspx
Summary of the auction results
They only thing they don't illustrate is how the pistol is "reloaded", so to speak. I imagine that it must be a bit of a delicate and hair-raising experience to repack it for the next performance.