Schulhof  wanted

Josef Schulhof (1824 - 1890) was a farmer who, in 1870, threw up his farming career and moved to Wien (Vienna) to become a gun maker. In 1882 he produced a repeating rifle. The rifle butt was hollow and contained three compartments into which cartridges could be dropped.
In 1884 he developed a mechanical repeating pistol which was used much as the same sort of system, a magazine in the grip feeding up to a reciprocating bolt operated by a finger loop. This pistol was also turned down by the military, but a small number have been sold on the commercial market. Hogg, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Firearms, page 277.
Since several years I own numbers 3 and  36, which German collectors call the lowest and highest  surviving numbers.

open + empty

cartridge is pushed in chamber, ready to fire

the grip-inside shows on the left the elevator for the cartridges

fired

serial # 10, cal. 10.6mm Schulhof, 6" octagonal barrel with missing front sight, the relative poor nickel plating is mostly worn, the checkered grips show little wear, which is considering the age of the pistol acceptable. The action including the grip-opening for loading the cartridges is tight and in good working order.
One of only three pistols I have seen in 38 years, and certainly much rarer than a Colt Paterson for $100,000. Therefore I guess the word "scarce" is no exaggeration.   

Schulhof 1884, serial# 3 and 36, cal. 10.6mm Schulhof.
not for sale