Share: THE RIGHT SHOTGUN FOR YOU THE CLOSEST ARMORY TO YOU NEWS PRICE LIST WHY SABATTI? HISTORY CONTACTS DO YOU WANT TO CONTACT US? TELEPHONE: +39 030 8912207 WRITE US: info@sabatti.it Home > History HISTORY In Val Trompia the history of firearms is essentially the history of a people who during the troubled and impetuous passage of the centuries have dedicated their best energies and their most acute wits to this fascinating activity. Many documents preserved in various Italian and European archives, as well as the large quantity of weapons (daggers, swords, arquebuses, pistols and rifles) jealously guarded in the main historical museums around the world, testify to the existence of this activity in Val Trompia since the more remote times, and reveal the ingenuity and the high degree of refinement achieved by those craftsmen in various past eras. Inserted in this reality, the numerous Sabatti family is always actively present, and there are various specializations inherent in the manufacture of firearms to which these men successfully dedicated themselves, despite the alternating historical and political events of the last centuries. Thus we find operating in Gardone Val Trompia, in the early 1700s, the archibusaro Lodovico Sabatti (1674-1745) who, in addition to building excellent flintlock pistols, is also a qualified and appreciated gunner. Esteemed and skilled archibus maker is also Giuseppe Sabatti, who carried out his activity in Gardone Val Trompia between 1760 and 1815. His namesake, on the other hand, is an expert gunner, who enjoys an excellent reputation and is considered among the best kettles of real damascus rods very fine, in the first half of the nineteenth century. (Boiling is an incandescent solder forging). In the family, however, preference seems to be reserved for the manufacture of flintlocks; in fact, when in 1848 the provisional government of Brescia asked the architects of Magno Val Trompia "not their blood but their work in defense of the homeland", we discover that four out of ten steelmakers operating in the place are Sabatti. Of the same period are the master of reeds Domenico Sabatti and the archibus maker Giovanni Sabatti, the latter in activity between 1840 and 1880 approximately. Well known are the names of the members of the various branches of the Sabatti family who, later on, alone or in partnership with others, continued this activity uninterrupted to the present day. However, it was in the immediate post-war period (1946) that Antonio Sabatti in partnership with Giuseppe Tanfoglio gave new vigor to the production of components for hunting rifles, substantially preferring, once again, the manufacture of locks. Around 1956, the production of automatic self-defense guns also began and four years later this company was dissolved, assigning each of the two partners a different sector of activity. Following this split, in 1960 the sons of Antonio Sabatti formed a new company among themselves which has since grown and has gained a very important role in the world panorama of sporting gun manufacturers. Today, Antonio Sabatti's grandsons: Emanuele, Antonio and Marco, still continue to produce, with success as in ancient times, hunting and shooting rifles that are increasingly perfect and always better responding to today's expectations of hunters and shooters from all over the world. world. WHY SABATTI? HISTORY CONTACTS SABATTI SpA via Alessandro Volta, 90 25063 Gardone VT (BS) Italy Tel +39 030 8912207 Fax +39 030 8912059 Email info@sabatti.it Sabatti © 2016 - VAT and Tax Code 01529740985 | Legal & Privacy | Cookie Policy | site map